ākāśā

Cite this page as:	"ākāśā". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_ākāśā (accessed 01 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “ether, atmosphere”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	akāśe
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. ākāśa-
Lexeme variants:	ākāśā
Number:	singular
Case:	perlative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ākāśś
voc
acc	ākāśś
gen
loc	ākāśaṃ
comit
inst
abl	ākāśäṣ
perl	ākāśā
all	ākāśacc
caus

Lexeme family

• ākāś “ether, atmosphere” m

  	sg
  nom	ākāśś
  acc	ākāśś
  loc	ākāśaṃ
  abl	ākāśäṣ
  perl	ākāśā
  all	ākāśacc

Occurrences

ākāśā

1	A 257 a4	kaklyuṣuräṣ weyeṃ nāṃtsuṣ tk(anā)	(ākāśā)	/// (sā)a5(dhu) sādhu wewñuräṣ
2	A 257 a7	॥ tmäṣ puk tkanā	āk(āśā)	(ñäktañ) a8 (nape)ñi tsopatsäṃ
3	A 257 b5	; – – – ; (tkan=)	(ā)kāśā	; puk wrasañ ;
4	A 297 b4	swāñceṃ tsākäṣtär ; tkan=	ākāśā	; wkäṃ wäknā :

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.