k_uce

Cite this page as:	"kuce". 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_kUce (accessed 07 Sep. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “who?, what?”
Word class:	noun
Word subclass:	pronoun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kuse
Lexeme variants:	kuce
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
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_uce

1	A 221 b5	(:) /// 14σ (70-)b55	kuce	ne wrasañ ; aṅgadeṃ
2	A 227-228 b4	– – – ; – – – (10-2)	kuc(e)	pat nu wras· ;
3	A 227-228 b6	metrak lkāl : 10-3	kuce	ne cem wrasañ ;
4	A 229 a1	15σ /// r {:}	kuce	ne cem wrasañ ;
5	A 235 a5	·e /// a5 ///	kuce	ne kākropuṣ /// a6
6	A 279 b1	k{†ä} ṣiyak kumnäṣ ॥	kuce	pa(t) nu wrasañ ptāñ·
7	A 354 b4	: ptāñäktaśśi ākläṣlye śkaṃ	kuce	ne : tṣaṃ śla

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.