yessa

Cite this page as:	"yessa". 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_yessa (accessed 07 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	“you”
Word class:	noun
Word subclass:	pronoun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	tu
Lexeme variants:	yessa
Number:	plural
Case:	perlative
Gender:	masculine; feminine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	twe	yes	yene
voc
acc	cī, ci	yes	yene
gen	tañ	yesi, yesäṃ, yesäñ
loc	cine
comit	cimpa
inst
abl	cīmeṃ
perl	cisa	yessa
all	ciśc	yesäśc
caus

Lexeme family

• twe “you” m/f

  	sg	pl	du
  nom	twe	yes	yene
  acc	cī, ci	yes	yene
  gen	tañ	yesi, yesäṃ, yesäñ
  loc	cine
  comit	cimpa
  abl	cīmeṃ
  perl	cisa	yessa
  all	ciśc	yesäśc

  • taññe “your (sg.), pertaining to you (sg.)”

    	sg.m	pl.f
    nom	taññe	täññana
    acc	taññe	täññana

  • ciṣṣe “thy, pertaining to thee'”

    	sg.m
    nom	ciṣṣe
    acc	ciṣṣe

Occurrences

yessa

1

THT 82 a2

॥ walo weṣṣäṃ käṣṣinta

yessa

warñai śaiṣṣe a3