konaṃ

Cite this page as:	"konaṃ". 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_konaṃ (accessed 12 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “day”; “sun”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kauṃ
Lexeme variants:	konaṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	locative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	P-i

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	koṃ, kon-äk	koñi
voc
acc	koṃ, kon-äk
gen		konäśśi
loc	konaṃ	koṃsaṃ
comit
inst	konyo
abl
perl		koṃsā
all	konac
caus

Lexeme family

• koṃ “day” “sun” m
  • ykoṃ “by day”
    • ykonā “in the daytime, by day”

Occurrences

konaṃ

1	A 72 a3	/// ·sk· ārts koṃ	konaṃ	sas yäl mättakk ats
2	A 110 b6	(tāk) /// (ypeṣinäṣ) (wra)saśśi	konaṃ	śäk pokes yärśār yṣaṃ
3	A 287 and 259 a3	tmäṣ āṣānik metrak ptāñkät	ko(naṃ)	a4 (ṣkäśśāṃ) (praṣtaṃ) (tsälpäṣlyinäs)
4	A 338 b4	kucac nu täm tāpärk	konaṃ	tri /// b5 ///
5	YQ I.6 b8	esam weñāṣt : ākā	konaṃ	ṣom
6	YQ III.11 b1	yärk ; ritwässi :	konaṃ	wu näṣ ; pissaṅkäṣ
7	YQ III.11 b7	/// ārśo näṣ aṣṭam	konaṃ	kälpāl ṣem dakṣinakäs :
8	YQ III.12 a4	; aṣṭami ; parnont	konaṃ	: wire ṣāmnāñ ;
9	YQ III.12 b1	b1 /// mäskatär	konaṃ	śtwarāk tmānis pät yärk
10	YQ III.12 b8	(nä)ṣ ārśo parnont aṣṭami	konaṃ	sne paräṃ mäskamār kuya (lte)

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.