aśup

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

• aśubha

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अशुभ (aśubha).

Noun

aśup ?

1. offensive thing
2. decaying human body

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “aśup”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 33