sarkäṣ

Cite this page as:	"sarkäṣ". 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_sarkäṣ (accessed 12 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	“circle, cycle, sequence, lineage” Carling and Pinault 2023: “chain, string”; “bracelet”; “circle, lineage”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	serke
Lexeme variants:	sarkäṣ
Number:	singular
Case:	ablative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	sark
voc
acc	sark
gen	sarkis
loc	sarkaṃ
comit	sarkaśśäl
inst
abl	sarkäṣ
perl	sarkā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• sark “chain, string” “bracelet” “circle, lineage” “circle, cycle, sequence, lineage” m

  	sg
  nom	sark
  acc	sark
  gen	sarkis
  loc	sarkaṃ
  comit	sarkaśśäl
  abl	sarkäṣ
  perl	sarkā

Occurrences

sarkäṣ

1	A 349 a1	kus pat nu wasäṃ	sarkäṣ	kätko /// a2 ///
2	A 409 a3	tām nu praṣtaṃ brahmāyuṣiṃ	sarkäṣ	/// a4 /// w·s
3	YQ I.8 b5	nu riyaṃ cakkravartṣi ikṣvākuy	sarkäṣ	gautam koträb6(ṣ) /// w(l)āñ(kä)t

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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