k_ucaṃ

Cite this page as:	"kucaṃ". 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_kUcaṃ (accessed 19 May 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “who?, what?”
Word class:	noun
Word subclass:	pronoun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kuse
Lexeme variants:	kucaṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	locative
Gender:	masculine; feminine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kus, kussa-k	kuce
voc
acc	kuc
gen	ke, ke-kk
loc	kucaṃ
comit	kucaśśal
inst	kucyo
abl	kucäṣ
perl	kucā
all	kucac
caus

Lexeme family

• kus “who?, what?” m/f

  	sg	pl
  nom	kus, kussa-k	kuce
  acc	kuc
  gen	ke, ke-kk
  loc	kucaṃ
  comit	kucaśśal
  inst	kucyo
  abl	kucäṣ
  perl	kucā
  all	kucac

Occurrences

k_ucaṃ

1	A 220 b4	mā ; kātäṅkāṣ :	kucaṃ	ne täm nṣā ;
2	YQ III.10 a7	॥ pudgalik el nu	kucaṃ	ne kälymeyā spārtwäṣ camäṣṣ

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.