lekā

Cite this page as:	"lekā". 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_lekā (accessed 16 Jan. 2026).
Meaning:	“gesture” Carling and Pinault 2023: “attitude, look, air”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	lek
Lexeme variants:	lekā
Number:	singular
Case:	perlative
Gender:	masculine_singular

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	lek
voc
acc	lek
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl	lekā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• lek “attitude, look, air” “gesture” msg
  • lekac “looking like, -like”

Occurrences

lekā

1	A 226 a3	; wampeṣi ; – – – –	l(e)kā	cem : mahurṣi ;
2	A 226 a3	cem : mahurṣi ;	lekā	ṣome ; pu – – – – – –
3	A 226 a4	: kat(u) – pärsānt	lekā	; kontāl lekā ;
4	A 226 a4	pärsānt lekā ; kontāl	lekā	; ṣome saṃ (:)

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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