konyo

Cite this page as:	"konyo". 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_konyo (accessed 23 Jan. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “day”; “sun”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kauṃ
Lexeme variants:	konyo
Number:	singular
Case:	instrumental
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

konyo

1	A 280 a4	: sāmudr asaträ päñcäṃ	konyo	puk tkaṃ ṣäptäñc(ä)ṃ konyo
2	A 280 a4	konyo puk tkaṃ ṣäptäñc(ä)ṃ	konyo	/// a5 /// ne
3	A 298 b8	b8 pañcmaṃ ॥ ṣkäśśäṃ	konyo	///

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.