ko

Cite this page as:	"ko". 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_ko (accessed 25 Jan. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “cow”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	keu
Lexeme variants:	ko
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-wi

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ko	kowi
voc
acc	ko	kos
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ko “cow” f

  	sg	pl
  nom	ko	kowi
  acc	ko	kos

Occurrences

ko

1	A 70 b6	: 2 yāmutstsiśśi kokāśśi	ko
2	THT 1380.j a2	– ka ·tyo tri	ko	·c· /// a3 ///
3	THT 1466.b a4	l·e ṅkäs – – – nā	ko	·e – – m – – –
4	THT 1584.f a1	pa ryā nā sa	ko	sne kri – – ///
5	THT 1606.b a2	·kr· śkke ne kñukaṃ	ko	ri /// a3 ///
6	THT 1642.g a4	/// a4 /// ·mā	ko	n·a n·ā /// b1
7	THT 2031 a2	a2 /// rsa •	ko	wi ṣä /// b1
8	THT 2046 b3	t te wäl plant	ko	t· /// b4 ///
9	THT 2346 a2	a2 /// lkiñc :	ko	ñäkte /// a3 ///
10	THT 2384.b a2	a2 /// – mācar	ko	l· /// b1 ///
11	THT 2664 a1	a1 /// tä	ko	sā – /// b1
12	THT 3185 b9	ra ka ye· ekṣu	ko	b10 ·e ya· – – –
13	THT 3355 b2	/// b2 /// śi	ko	vā ///

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.