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 14 Jul. 2026). |
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| 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, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
