Reconstruction:Tocharian B/kurkam
Tocharian B
editEtymology
editLikely from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwlkwm /kurkum/). Compare the other borrowings of Old Armenian քրքում (kʻrkʻum) and Old Georgian ქურქუმაჲ (kurkumay). Only attested in the suffixed form kurkamäṣṣe.
Noun
edit*kurkam ?
Derived terms
edit- kurkamäṣṣe (“pertaining to”)
Further reading
edit- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “kurkamäṣṣe”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 196