malkam-äm

Cite this page as:	"malkam-äm". 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_malkam-äm (accessed 12 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “join, put together, put on”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	mälkā-
Lexeme variants:	malkam-äm
Person:	first
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	subjunctive
Pronoun suffix:	plural
Root character:	a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	5
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1	malkam-äm
2
3

Lexeme family

• mälkā-
  • mälkā- “join, put together, put on” gv
    • mälkā- “join, put together, put on” gv.subj5

      	sg.act
      1	malkam-äm

    • mälkā- “join, put together, put on” gv.pret1

      	pl.mid
      3	mälkānt

      • mälko “having (been) put together” part.pret1

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mälko, mälkont	mälkont	mälkoṣ, mälkont	mälkont
        acc	mälkont	mälkont	mälkoṣäs, mälkont	mälkont
        loc			mälkoñcsaṃ

    • mälkā- “join, put together, put on” gv.prs7
      • mläṅkmāṃ “being put together” part.prs7

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ
        acc	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ

Occurrences

malkam-äm

1

A 11 b6

āyäntu pukā-k puskāsyo kaśal

malkam-äm

॥ trit träṅkäṣ näṣ

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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