kank
| Cite this page as: | "kank". 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_kank (accessed 12 Mar. 2026). |
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| Meaning: | Carling et al. 2009: “cotton cloth” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | kenek |
| Lexeme variants: | kank; kanak |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | nominative; accusative |
| Gender: | masculine |
Paradigm
| sg | pl | du | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nom | kank | ||
| voc | |||
| acc | kank | ||
| gen | |||
| loc | kankaṃ | ||
| comit | |||
| inst | kanakyo | ||
| abl | |||
| perl | |||
| all | |||
| caus |
Lexeme family
- kanak “cotton cloth”
m
sg nom kank acc kank loc kankaṃ inst kanakyo - kanakṣi “cotton cloth”
sg.m sg.f nom kanakṣi kanakṣi acc kanakṣinäṃ, kanakṣi kanakṣi
- kanakṣi “cotton cloth”
Occurrences
kanak
| 1 | YQ III.1 b4 | ; (mäccā)käk ; wāpat | kanak | ; wākmatsäṃ : 1 |
| 2 | YQ III.4 b1 | r kus ne caṣ | kanak | ptāñkät käṣyāp el eṣ |
| 3 | YQ III.4 b2 | ne ptāñkä{t} {kä}ṣṣi cab2(ṣ) | (kanak) | /// – • puttiśparäṃṣi |
| 4 | YQ III.5 a5 | /// w(o)rpus wsā yokäṃ | kanak | tsaraṃ pärmāṃ mahāprajāpati gautami |
| 5 | YQ III.6 a8 | āmpi tsarnaṃ wsā yokäṃ | kanak | eṃtsus tsopatsäṃ b1 /// |
| 6 | YQ III.6 b3 | /// (pu)ttiśparäṃṣi knānmuneyo säs | kanak | kupre ne pissaṅkac wawu |
| 7 | YQ III.6 b4 | tā(ṣ) b4 /// | (ka)nak | eṃtsāträ ptāñkät käṣyāp el |
| 8 | YQ III.6 b6 | träṅkäṣ pissaṅkac gautami caṃ | kab7(nak) | /// (pi)ssaṅk penu yärkā |
| 9 | YQ III.6 b8 | täm kaklyuṣuräṣ lāb8(ts) /// | (kana)k{†ä} | wleṣe mänt nu täṣ |
| 10 | YQ III.7 a1 | a1 /// (caṣ) | (kana)k | āṣānik ñwaṃ wākmatsäṃ wsā |
| 11 | YQ III.7 a3 | pissaṅkac ; esmāṃ tñi | kanak | a4 14σ /// – |
| 12 | YQ III.7 a6 | ñwaṃ wsā yokäṃ ; | kanak | mäa7(ccāk) ; 3σ 12σ |
| 13 | YQ III.7 b2 | elyi ṣeṣ kuc prakṣäl | kanak | tmäṣ ptāñkät käṣṣi trityo |
| 14 | YQ III.11 a2 | träṅkäṣ päa2(klyoṣ) /// (gautami)s | kanak | pälkoräṣ ṣpät wäknā pissaṅkaṃ |
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
