empelyās

Cite this page as:	"empelyās". 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_empelyās (accessed 16 Jan. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “dreadful, formidable”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	empele
Lexeme variants:	empelyās
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	feminine
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

empelyās

1	A 152 b3	y·ṣ /// b3 ///	empelyās	klopant wärpnātär • tmäṣ
2	THT 1135 a3	kaśal ma /// a3	empelyā(s)	/// a4 krutsi lya

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.