yärkes

Cite this page as:	"yärkes". 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_yärkes (accessed 09 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	“honor, reference, deference” Carling and Pinault 2023: “homage”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	yarke
Lexeme variants:	yärkes
Number:	singular
Case:	genitive
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ant

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	yärk	yärkant
voc
acc	yärk	yärkant
gen	yärkes
loc		yärkäntwaṃ
comit
inst		yärkaṃtyo
abl
perl	yärkā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• yärk “homage” “honor, reference, deference” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	yärk	yärkant
  acc	yärk	yärkant
  gen	yärkes
  loc		yärkäntwaṃ
  inst		yärkaṃtyo
  perl	yärkā

  • yärkäntwāṣi “homage” “honor, reference, deference”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	yärkäntwāṣi	yärkäntwāṣi

  • yärkaṣi “homage” “honor, reference, deference”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	yärkaṣi	yärkaṣi

Occurrences

yärkes

1

A 240 a1

a1 ///

yärkes

āṣāṃ kapśäññe buddhiśparäṃṣīne ///

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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