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teṅke

Cite this page as:	"teṅke". 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_B_teṅke (accessed 10 Dec. 2023).

Meaning:	“Place name / (sheep)fold, pen (Adams)”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	teṅke

Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	teṅke
voc
acc	teṅke
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all	teṅkeś
caus

Lexeme family

teṅke

sg

nom teṅke

acc teṅke

all teṅkeś
- teṅkeṣṣe
  
  sg.m
  
  nom teṅkeṣṣe
  
  acc teṅkeṣṣe

	sg
nom	teṅke
acc	teṅke
all	teṅkeś

	sg.m
nom	teṅkeṣṣe
acc	teṅkeṣṣe

Commentary

Adams 2013a: 322 argues that it is an o-grade, o-stem derivative of täṅk- 'stop,' and thus could mean '(sheep)fold, pen.' Alternatively, it could be a proper name, as in Ching 2010.

Occurrences

Bibliography

Adams 2013a

Adams, Douglas Q. 2013a. A dictionary of Tocharian B. Revised and greatly enlarged. 2nd ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Ching 2010

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD thesis, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.