sarkaṃ

Cite this page as:	"sarkaṃ". 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_sarkaṃ (accessed 15 Feb. 2026).
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:	sarkaṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	locative
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

sarkaṃ

1

A 94 b4

1σ /// (śā)kkiśśi ;

sarkaṃ

saṃ ; smālok wrasom

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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