ālen

Cite this page as:	"ālen". 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_ālen (accessed 07 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “palm (of hand)”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	alyiye
Lexeme variants:	ālen; ālaṃ; āleṃ
Number:	dual
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	feminine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	āley		ālen
voc
acc	āley		ālen
gen
loc	āleyaṃ		ālenaṃ
comit
inst			ālenyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• āle “palm (of hand)” f

  	sg	du
  nom	āley	ālen
  acc	āley	ālen
  loc	āleyaṃ	ālenaṃ
  inst		ālenyo

Occurrences

āleṃ

1

YQ II.10 b3

(so)piñ prārwaṃ ; wlyepaṃ

āleṃ

; śalaṃ peṃ :

ālaṃ

1

YQ II.4 b6

(4) (kośeññ) (oki) (wlyepaṃ)

(ālaṃ)

(śalaṃ) (peṃ) (5) (sopi)ñ

ālen

1	A 216 b6	päskāyäs b6 /// (la)kṣaṃ	āleb7(n)	/// (sopi)ñ tsarnā pe
2	YQ II.4 b5	(śalpeṃ) (1) (cākkär) (lakṣaṃ)	ālen	yo śalaṃ penaṃ 2

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.