k_ule

Cite this page as:	"kule". 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_kUle (accessed 14 Jan. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “woman”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	klīye
Lexeme variants:	kule
Number:	singular
Case:	accusative
Gender:	feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-i
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-e
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-āñ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kuli	kulewāñ
voc
acc	kule	kulewās
gen	kuleyis	kulewāśśi
loc	kuleyaṃ	kulewāsaṃ
comit		kulewāśśäl
inst		kulewāsyo
abl	kuleyäṣ	kulewāsäṣ
perl	kuleyā	kulewāsā
all	kuleyac	kulewāsac
caus

Lexeme family

• k_uli “woman” f

  	sg	pl
  nom	kuli	kulewāñ
  acc	kule	kulewās
  gen	kuleyis	kulewāśśi
  loc	kuleyaṃ	kulewāsaṃ
  comit		kulewāśśäl
  inst		kulewāsyo
  abl	kuleyäṣ	kulewāsäṣ
  perl	kuleyā	kulewāsā
  all	kuleyac	kulewāsac

  • k_uleñci “female, feminine”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.f
    nom	kuleñci	kuleñci
    acc	kuleñciṃ	kuleñcināṃ	kuleñcinās

Occurrences

k_ule

1	A 149 a2	/// ck· ksär kākätkus	kule	– – – – – – – k nāśśāñ säs
2	A 198 b6	b6 – ·· ināṃ	kule	nu lo ///
3	A 321 b1	·näṣ ānand pälke temi	kul(e)	/// b2 /// ·t·tw·
4	A 399 a2	/// ne lkāṣ tām	kule	kāruṇyo lātäṅkāṣ päśśäṃ •
5	PK NS 1 b1	wac kuñaś lkātär ;	kule	ṣurmaṣ : 1 ṣotre
6	THT 2468 a1	a1 /// – – r·	kule	– /// a2 ///

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.