esā

Cite this page as:	"esā". 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_esā (accessed 13 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “shoulder”; “(pl.) aggregate”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	āntse
Lexeme variants:	esā
Number:	singular
Case:	perlative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	es	esañ	esäṃ
voc
acc	es	esas	esäṃ
gen
loc			esnaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl	esā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• es “shoulder” “(pl.) aggregate” m

  	sg	pl	du
  nom	es	esañ	esäṃ
  acc	es	esas	esäṃ
  loc			esnaṃ
  perl	esā

  • esneṃ “shoulder” “(pl.) aggregate”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	esneṃ	esneṃ

  • esnum “shoulder” “(pl.) aggregate”

    	sg.m
    nom	esnum

Occurrences

esā

1	A 184 b3	·k· su oki :	esā	wsālyo yä b4 ///
2	A 197 b6	ś· /// b6 reṃ	esā	kāmitr-äm säryāṃ t· o
3	A 321 a4	msär trābh·yo ku{t→n}ti śkaṃ	esā	pärmāṃ lok wä ///

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.