ku
| Cite this page as: | "ku". 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_ku (accessed 08 Feb. 2026). |
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| Meaning: | Carling et al. 2009: “dog” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | ku |
| Lexeme variants: | ku; kū |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | nominative |
| Gender: | masculine |
Paradigm
| sg | pl | du | |
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| nom | ku | ||
| voc | |||
| acc | koṃ | ||
| gen | |||
| loc | |||
| comit | |||
| inst | |||
| abl | |||
| perl | |||
| all | |||
| caus |
Lexeme family
- ku “dog”
m
sg nom ku acc koṃ
Occurrences
kū
| 1 | A 340 b3 | ; nakät kuli tmā-k | kū | ; pākär tā(k) (tsopa)ts |
ku
| 1 | A 106 b5 | kākmart naṣ-äṃ ; ṣu | ku | b6 2σ /// klyomiṃ |
| 2 | A 246 a1 | tñi ; mā naṣ | ku | a2 4σ 2σ /// |
| 3 | A 284 a5 | /// a5 /// yo | ku | oki : /// a6 |
| 4 | IOL Toch 297 a1 | n· – ṣ paṃ | ku | ·n· /// (kā)a2(ś)y(a)p träṅkäṣ |
| 5 | THT 1377.a b3 | /// b3 ñño ke | ku | mpa /// b4 ·ä |
| 6 | THT 1378.e b3 | – myo cwaṃ • | ku | ce /// |
| 7 | THT 1475.c a4 | – tre y· tw· | ku | ś· – – /// a5 |
| 8 | THT 1476.b a3 | – /// a3 ñcäm | ku | l· /// a4 – – |
| 9 | THT 1617.a b2 | /// n· – – t· | ku | tsn· ·ñ· /// b3 |
| 10 | THT 1651.a a1x | sā /// a1x tu | ku | ṅko ṣi ci a2 |
| 11 | THT 1658.c a2 | a2 /// tā • | ku | yo k·a – /// |
| 12 | THT 2427 a2 | a2 /// mṣ·śśi : | ku | ·ra – /// a3 |
| 13 | THT 2537 a1 | a1 /// ru | ku | • ymä – /// |
| 14 | THT 3451 b1 | b1 /// – m | ku | se /// b2 /// |
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
