Tocharianadj.n.

Brit.

/təˈkɛːrɪən/,

/tɒˈkɛːrɪən/,

/təˈkɑːrɪən/,

/tɒˈkɑːrɪən/, U.S.

/toʊˈkɛriən/

Forms: Also Tokharian.

Etymology: < French tocharien (or Tocharish n.), < Greek Τοχάροι (Strabo) a Central Asiatic people formerly thought to speak Tocharian; see -ian suffix.

A. adj.

Of, pertaining to, or designating an extinct Indo-European language spoken in the latter half of the first millennium a.d., of which remains have been discovered in Chinese Turkestan.

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Tocharian1927

1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Peasants & Potters 134 The Tocharian language of parts of Turkestan.

1960 E. Partridge Charm of Words 170 The -k- variation attested by Lett aka, a water-spring, and Hittite eku-, to drink, and dubiously Tokharian yoko, (a) thirst, should perhaps be aligned with certain OE and ON -g- words.

B. n.

This language; also, a member of the people or peoples speaking the language. Two dialects of Tocharian are recognized: an eastern, Tocharian A (= Turfanian n.), and a western, Tocharian B (= Kuchaean n.).

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Tocharish1910

Tocharian1934

the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Asia > [noun]

HuneOE

Kushan1872

Tocharian1966

1934 A. J. Toynbee Study of Hist. I. i. iii. 113 One isolated language in the far north-east (the now extinct ‘Tokharian’, which has become known to Western scholars through the discovery..of documents in this language.)

1950 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1949 9 The system of r-endings found in the verbal paradigms of various I[ndo-] E[uropean] languages..is clearly attested in Hittite, Indo-Iranian, Tocharian, Phrygian and Armenian, Italic, Celtic.

1966 G. S. Lane in H. Birnbaum & J. Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 218 If we could ever find out what non-Indo-European influence brought about the distinction in gender in A, we might know considerably more about the wanderings and contacts of the ‘Tocharians’.

1975 Language 51 141 Tocharian -tsi..is regularly added to a verbal stem, the present stem in East Tocharian and the subjunctive stem in West Tocharian.

1977 Word 28 1 We have on one side Latin and Keltic, on the other Indo-Aryan, Iranian..and Tocharian.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tocharian
释义	Tocharianadj.n. Brit. /təˈkɛːrɪən/, /tɒˈkɛːrɪən/, /təˈkɑːrɪən/, /tɒˈkɑːrɪən/, U.S. /toʊˈkɛriən/ Forms: Also Tokharian. Etymology: < French tocharien (or Tocharish n.), < Greek Τοχάροι (Strabo) a Central Asiatic people formerly thought to speak Tocharian; see -ian suffix. A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating an extinct Indo-European language spoken in the latter half of the first millennium a.d., of which remains have been discovered in Chinese Turkestan. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Tocharian Tocharian1927 1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Peasants & Potters 134 The Tocharian language of parts of Turkestan. 1960 E. Partridge Charm of Words 170 The -k- variation attested by Lett aka, a water-spring, and Hittite eku-, to drink, and dubiously Tokharian yoko, (a) thirst, should perhaps be aligned with certain OE and ON -g- words. B. n. This language; also, a member of the people or peoples speaking the language. Two dialects of Tocharian are recognized: an eastern, Tocharian A (= Turfanian n.), and a western, Tocharian B (= Kuchaean n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Tocharian Tocharish1910 Tocharian1934 the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Asia > [noun] HuneOE Kushan1872 Tocharian1966 1934 A. J. Toynbee Study of Hist. I. i. iii. 113 One isolated language in the far north-east (the now extinct ‘Tokharian’, which has become known to Western scholars through the discovery..of documents in this language.) 1950 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1949 9 The system of r-endings found in the verbal paradigms of various I[ndo-] E[uropean] languages..is clearly attested in Hittite, Indo-Iranian, Tocharian, Phrygian and Armenian, Italic, Celtic. 1966 G. S. Lane in H. Birnbaum & J. Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 218 If we could ever find out what non-Indo-European influence brought about the distinction in gender in A, we might know considerably more about the wanderings and contacts of the ‘Tocharians’. 1975 Language 51 141 Tocharian -tsi..is regularly added to a verbal stem, the present stem in East Tocharian and the subjunctive stem in West Tocharian. 1977 Word 28 1 We have on one side Latin and Keltic, on the other Indo-Aryan, Iranian..and Tocharian. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1927
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