kucyo
| Cite this page as: | "kucyo". 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_kucyo (accessed 15 Dec. 2025). |
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| Meaning: | Carling et al. 2009: “who?, what?” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Word subclass: | pronoun |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | kuse |
| Lexeme variants: | kucyo |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | instrumental |
| Gender: | masculine; feminine |
Paradigm
| sg | pl | du | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nom | kus, kussa-k | kuce | |
| voc | |||
| acc | kuc | ||
| gen | ke, ke-kk | ||
| loc | kucaṃ | ||
| comit | kucaśśal | ||
| inst | kucyo | ||
| abl | kucäṣ | ||
| perl | kucā | ||
| all | kucac | ||
| caus |
Lexeme family
- kus “who?, what?”
m/f
sg pl nom kus, kussa-k kuce acc kuc gen ke, ke-kk loc kucaṃ comit kucaśśal inst kucyo abl kucäṣ perl kucā all kucac
Occurrences
kucyo
| 1 | A 93 b3 | penu empelune mā naṣ-ñi | kucyo | ne sne b4 /// |
| 2 | A 218 b2 | ; pñi tämnäṣ-ñi ; | kucyo | ne yiñc ; ñäktasac |
| 3 | A 227-228 b6 | ; kāpñe p(y)āb6mtsāc ; | kucyo | ne ; metrak lkāl |
| 4 | A 254 b7 | (wrasaśśi) (śū)nyātṣi märkampal āksiṣ | kucyo | ne cem ly(u)tār mām(r)oskuṣ |
| 5 | A 279 a3 | a3 /// m lyalypäntu | kucyo | ne was metrakṣināṃ o |
| 6 | A 336 b5 | /// (ku)pre pat nu | kucyo | ne wrasañ tm-äk neṣ |
| 7 | A 336 b6 | säm winayapiṭak tāk • | kucyo | n(e) – ṣpā märkampal |
| 8 | THT 1961 a2 | /// a2 /// ·kā | kucyo | /// b1 /// ·u |
| 9 | YQ I.7 b1 | /// klop śmäṣ | kucyo | ne āriñc wākaṣ-äṃ omäl |
| 10 | YQ III.11 a5 | (ṣom) (caṃ) /// (po)sāc | kucyo | wasäṃ sarkā keṃ pälkuneyo |
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.


