meṣ

Cite this page as:	"meṣ". 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_meṣ (accessed 08 Nov. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “shake, quake”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	meṣ
Person:	third
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	present
Root character:	a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	present
Stem class:	1-2
Valency:	intransitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3	meyā, meṣ	meyeñc

Lexeme family

• miwā-
  • miwā- “shake, quake” gv
    • miwā- “shake, quake” gv.prs1/2

      	sg.act	pl.act
      3	meyā, meṣ	meyeñc

    • miwā- “shake, quake” gv.subj5
      • mewlune “shaking, quivering” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	mewlune
        acc	mewlune

Occurrences

meṣ

1	A 91 b3	karṇikār ; ṣtāmis letke	meṣ	: b4 15σ 6σ
2	A 156 a2	a2 /// kte :	meṣ	tkaṃ-ñkät lykäly lykäly wenanträ
3	A 253 b7	; lukseñc-äm : ṣont	meṣ	wrasab8(śśi) ; (kro)pā yetwesyo
4	A 255 b8	(॥) (tām) (praṣtaṃ) (tkaṃ)	(meṣ)	; kälymeṃ tskäṃsanträ ;
5	A 297 b3	• ॥ maitraṃ ॥	meṣ	tkaṃ śla ṣulas ;

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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