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 19 May 2026). |
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| 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
- kanweṃṣi “knee”
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) /// |


