ak

Cite this page as:	"ak". 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_ak (accessed 12 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “eye”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	ek
Lexeme variants:	ak; akk
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ak		aśäṃ
voc
acc	ak		aśäṃ
gen	akis		aśnis
loc			aśnaṃ
comit
inst	akyo		aśänyo
abl			aśnäṣ
perl
all	akac
caus

Lexeme family

• ak “eye” n

  	sg	du
  nom	ak	aśäṃ
  acc	ak	aśäṃ
  gen	akis	aśnis
  loc		aśnaṃ
  inst	akyo	aśänyo
  abl		aśnäṣ
  all	akac

  • aśnum “having eyes, seeing”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	aśnum	aśnumäṣ
    acc	aśnumänt

Occurrences

akk

1

A 405 b3

(śpā)lmeṃ ; okontu :

akk

ālko(nt) – – s ;

ak

1	A 388 b1	/// (ka)lp{†ä} nāṃtsu säm	ak	mā nāṃtsu • arkätsäṃ
2	THT 1527.c a2	/// a2 /// –	ak	säs lkāntä – ///

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.