gautam

Cite this page as:	"gautam". 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_gautam (accessed 15 Mar. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “Gautama, name of a sage”; “Gautama, name of a clan”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	gautame
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. Gautama
Lexeme variants:	gautam
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	gautam
voc
acc	gautam
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• gautam “Gautama, name of a sage” “Gautama, name of a clan” m

  	sg
  nom	gautam
  acc	gautam

  • gautamṣi “belonging to the Gautama clan”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	gautamṣi	gautamṣi
    acc	gautamṣiṃ

Occurrences

gautam

1	A 101 a2	/// (śra)luneyo pälkäs(s)i kuyalte	gautam	ñomā riṣaa3(k) /// waṣtäṣ
2	YQ I.8 b5	riyaṃ cakkravartṣi ikṣvākuy sarkäṣ	gautam	koträb6(ṣ) /// w(l)āñ(kä)t (n)aṣ
3	YQ I.9 b3	klyoṣäl tāk : 1	gautam	koträṣ ; ikṣvāb4(kuy) ;

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.