āptā

Cite this page as:	"āptā". 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_āptā (accessed 07 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “early, earlier, before, previous”
Word class:	uninflected
Word subclass:	adverb
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	āptā

Lexeme family

• āptā “early, earlier, before, previous”

Occurrences

āptā

1	A 43 and 52 a2	ntu ॥ ṣeraśi-niṣkramāntaṃ ॥	āptā	spaa3twasyo ; bhūtāsyo –
2	A 115 a6	kulyi āklus tāṣ temi	āptā	praṣtaṃ m ·· la=
3	A 150 a3	– – – – yä – ṣomeśśi	āptā	mäskanträ • ptāñkät käṣṣi
4	A 305 b2	/// (kṣaṇa)ñ ñi täpreṃ	āptā	mā katkar kos ne
5	A 332 b5	n(e)ñc – – – – – mā śkaṃ	āptā	neñc sparcwäntāśśi akälyme śkaṃ
6	A 436 a2	·āka ñi tā ne	āptā	yāmäl ṣem tmäṣ kospreṃn

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.