neṣontāp

Cite this page as:	"neṣontāp". 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_neṣontāp (accessed 12 Jul. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “leading, being first”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	neṣontāp
Number:	singular
Case:	genitive
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	neṣo
voc
acc
gen	neṣontāp
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

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

neṣontāp

1

A 59 a3

kakäa3(l) ; 8σ ///

(neṣo)ntāp

kiriṭavatstses waṣt lmontāp ckācar

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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