āyis

Cite this page as:	"āyis". 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_āyis (accessed 10 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “bone(s)”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	āyo
Lexeme variants:	āyis
Number:	singular
Case:	genitive
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	āy	āyäntu
voc
acc	āy	āyäntu
gen	āyis	āyäntwāśśi
loc		āyäntwaṃ
comit
inst
abl		āyäntwäṣ
perl		āyäṃtwā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• āy “bone(s)” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	āy	āyäntu
  acc	āy	āyäntu
  gen	āyis	āyäntwāśśi
  loc		āyäntwaṃ
  abl		āyäntwäṣ
  perl		āyäṃtwā

  • āyäntwāṣi “of bones”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
    nom	āyäntwāṣi	āyäntwāṣi	āyäntwāṣiñi

Occurrences

āyis

1

A 298 b3

träm tanne wkänyo āṣtäryāp

āyis

cämpl· /// b4 nāṭkaṃ

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.