print

lepś

Cite this page as:	"lepś". 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_lepś (accessed 02 Dec. 2023).
Meaning:	“carnivore, jackal”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	lepś
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	feminine_plural

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	lepś
voc
acc
gen		lepśäśśi
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl		lepśsā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• lepś fpl

  	sg	pl
  nom	lepś
  gen		lepśäśśi
  perl		lepśsā

Commentary

Translation by carlingandpinault2023: carnivore, jackal

;

To be judged by the context a species of carnivore associated with carrion and corpses. Not 'flies' (thus Couvreur 1959: 252b). Burlak and Itkin 2010: 354-6 propose "jackal", which is supported by cemetery scenes from Qizil paintings (see Howard and Vignato 2014: 109 on Qizil Caves 116 and 220 depicting jackals and vultures eating corpses).

Occurrences

Bibliography

Burlak and Itkin 2010

Burlak, Svetlana, and Ilya B. Itkin. 2010. “Yreki et autres addenda et corrigenda – 2.” In Issledovanija po lingvistike i semiotike. Sbornik statej k jubileju Vjač. Vs. Ivanova, edited by Tatjana Michajlovna Nikolaeva, 342–58. Moskva: Jazyki Slavjanskich Kulʹtur.

Couvreur 1959

Couvreur, Walter. 1959. “Review of: Thesaurus Linguae Tocharicae Dialecti A.” Bibliotheca Orientalis 16 (5-6): 251–53.

Howard and Vignato 2014

Howard, Angela F., and Giuseppe Vignato. 2014. Archaeological and visual sources of meditation in the ancient monasteries of Kuča. Leiden: Brill.