tsuko

Cite this page as:	"tsuko". 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_tsuko (accessed 10 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	“to drink” Carling and Pinault 2023: “suck (out)”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	tsuko
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-nt
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ṣ

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• tsukā-
  • tsukā- “suck (out)” “to drink” gv
    • tsukā- “suck (out)” “to drink” gv.subj5

      	sg.act
      1	tsokam

    • tsukā- “suck (out)” “to drink” gv.pret1

      	sg.act
      3	śuk

      • tsuko “suck (out)” “to drink” part.pret1

        	sg.m
        nom	tsuko

    • tsukā- “suck (out)” “to drink” gv.imp1

      	sg.act
      2	ptsok

Occurrences

tsuko

1	A 44 a1	(tālo)a1ñcäśśi pretāśśi wär	tsuko	– /// a2 yāmitär
2	YQ N.4 b2	/// ·se mäskatr-äm tāppu	tsuko	kälymeyā päknäṣtr-äm /// b3

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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