Tocharian A

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC ljangH|ljak, “to plunder, to rob, to be rapacious”). Cognate with Tocharian B lyak.[1]

Noun

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lyäk

  1. thief

References

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  1. ^
    2003, Alexander Lubotsky, Sergey Starostin, “Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian”, in Bauer, Brigitte L.M., Pinault, Georges-Jean, editors, Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, pages 257-269: