kanwen

Cite this page as:	"kanwen". 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_kanwen (accessed 03 Dec. 2024).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “knee”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	keni
Lexeme variants:	kanwen; kanweṃ
Number:	dual
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom			kanwen
voc
acc			kanwen
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl			kanwenā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kanwe “knee” m

  	du
  nom	kanwen
  acc	kanwen
  perl	kanwenā

  • kanweṃṣi “knee”

    	pl.m	pl.f
    acc	kanweṃṣinäs	kanweṃṣinās

Occurrences

kanweṃ

1	A 257 b6	·s·räṃ pyā(py)ā(s) bodhisattu(ṣinās) (peyuyac)	kanweṃ	tkanā to ts(eṃ) śākwaṣiṃ
2	A 261 b4	kä(ṣṣ)i(nac) (kā)tse kakmurä(ṣ) āmpi	kanweṃ	tkanā (to) (rā)java(rtt-yokäṃ) ///
3	THT 1152 b2	– – – – – /// b2 koc	kanweṃ	yāmu • – ///
4	YQ II.10 b2	kapśañi ; mā nmo	kanweṃ	; tkālune : ainey
5	YQ II.13 a2	a2 (āmpi)	(kanweṃ)	(tkanā) (to) (java) ///

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.