neṣā-k

Cite this page as:	"neṣā-k". 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_neṣā-k (accessed 21 Jan. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “before”
Word class:	uninflected
Word subclass:	adverb
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	neṣā-k

Lexeme family

• neṣā “before”
  • neṣi “earlier, before” “prior, previous”

    	sg.m	pl.m	pl.f
    nom	neṣi	neṣiñi
    acc	neṣiṃ, neṣinäṃ	neṣinäs	neṣinās

  • neṣo “leading, being first”

    	sg.m
    nom	neṣo
    gen	neṣontāp

  • neṣontā “in the lead”
  • neṣorñeyum “having ... as prerequisite, preceded by ...” “of the past (?)”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
    nom	neṣorñeyum	neṣorñeyumiṃ	neṣorñeyumäṣ

Occurrences

neṣā-k

1

A 11 a2

aträ vibhiṣaneṃ abhiṣek yāmäs

neṣā-k

lāṅk riyaṃ laṅkeśvareṃ ñomā

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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