ānt

Cite this page as:	"ānt". 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_ānt (accessed 11 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “front”; “surface”; “forehead”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	ānte
Lexeme variants:	ānt
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine_singular
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ānt
voc
acc	ānt
gen
loc	āntaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl
all	āntac
caus

Lexeme family

• ānt “front” “surface” “forehead” msg

  	sg
  nom	ānt
  acc	ānt
  loc	āntaṃ
  all	āntac

Occurrences

ānt

1	A 62 b4	ptāñkät ; mṣapantnis ;	ānt	ratkaṃ b5
2	A 212 b6	·e lyāk ṣiraś tāpäkyis	ānt	oki śal· /// b7
3	A 231 b3	14σ 3σ /// (e)p;reris	ānt	; āskācāsyo ; māk
4	A 455 a2	/// a2 /// leniss	ānt	a /// a3 ///
5	SHT 1317 b5	lyeñc unread	ānt	unread präśari unread māl
6	YQ II.4 b5	ne lyāk ṣiraś tāpäb5(kyis)	(ānt)	(oki) (śalpeṃ) (1) (cākkär)

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.