kamsaṃ

Cite this page as:	"kamsaṃ". 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_kamsaṃ (accessed 07 Nov. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “tooth”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	keme
Lexeme variants:	kamsaṃ
Number:	plural
Case:	locative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kam	kamañ, kams
voc
acc	kam	kams
gen		kamaśśi
loc		kamsaṃ
comit
inst
abl		kamsäṣ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kam “tooth” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	kam	kamañ, kams
  acc	kam	kams
  gen		kamaśśi
  loc		kamsaṃ
  abl		kamsäṣ

Occurrences

kamsaṃ

1	A 375 b2	wälts lts mäckes	kamsaṃ	we wälts n-äṃ wä
2	A 377 a3	mā nu oklop ;	kamsaṃ	ywārśkā ; klisnāś-śi :
3	A 377 a3	; sindhu tärnāmāṃ ;	kamsaṃ	a4 8σ ///

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.