empeles

Cite this page as:	"empeles". 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_empeles (accessed 05 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “dreadful, formidable”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	empele
Lexeme variants:	empeles
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ṃ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ñ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	empele		empeleñ
voc
acc	empeleṃ		empeles	empelyās
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• empele “dreadful, formidable”

  	sg.m	pl.m	pl.f
  nom	empele	empeleñ
  acc	empeleṃ	empeles	empelyās

  • empelune “formidableness, horror” n

    	sg
    nom	empelune
    acc	empelune
    abl	empeluneyäṣ

Occurrences

empeles

1	A 1 b4	lāñci waṣt pāṣäntās śāwes	empeles	(n)ā(kā)b5s āsuk kätkoräṣ sāgareṃ
2	A 3 b2	; mskantāsac : mā	empe(les)	; b3 omskeṃsac ;
3	A 43 and 52 a3	; yoṣmoṣnunt : ṣokyo	empeles	; täa4pres paltsasyo ;

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.