ārkyaṃś

Cite this page as:	"ārkyaṃś". 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_ārkyaṃś (accessed 19 May 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “white”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	ārkwi
Lexeme variants:	ārkyaṃś
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	ārki	ārkiṃ	ārkyaṃś	ārkyant
voc
acc	ārki	ārkināṃ		ārkyant
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ārki “white”

  	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
  nom	ārki	ārkiṃ	ārkyaṃś	ārkyant
  acc	ārki	ārkināṃ		ārkyant

Occurrences

ārkyaṃś

1	A 213 a6	a6 /// 20-3 ṣokyo	ā(r)ky(aṃ)ś	āṅkari 20-4 śiśak śanweṃ
2	A 217 b2	rätraṃ lymeṃ ciñcraṃ ;	ārkyaṃś	āṅkari ; lyäklyäṃ wrokṣi
3	YQ II.5 a3	(20-1) /// (20-3) (ṣokyo)	(ārkyaṃś)	āṅkari 20-4 śiśäk śanweṃ

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.