kto

Cite this page as:	"kto". 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_kto (accessed 17 Dec. 2025).
Meaning:	“to strew” Carling and Pinault 2023: “spread, disperse”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	kto
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-nt
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ṣ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	kto
voc
acc
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kätā-
  • kätā- “spread, disperse” “to strew” gv
    • kätā- “spread, disperse” “to strew” gv.prs6

      	sg.act	pl.mid
      3	knāṣ-äṃ, knāṣ-äm	knāntär

    • kätā- “spread, disperse” “to strew” gv.pret1

      	pl.act
      3	katar

      • kto “spread, disperse” “to strew” part.pret1

        	sg.m
        nom	kto

    • kätā- “spread, disperse” “to strew” gv.prs4
      • knāl “to be strewed” part.prs4

        	sg.m
        nom	knāl

Occurrences

kto

1

YQ I.7 b4

brāmmaṃ nirdhaneṃ brāmnā warśeṃ

kto

• śla kärye oṣeñi

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.