snai
Tocharian B
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Tocharian *s(ä)nai (whence Tocharian A sne (“id”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sn̥h₂éy, dative form of Proto-Indo-European *senH- (“separated, asunder, apart, without”). Cognate with Sanskrit सनुतर् (sanutar, “far away”), Old English sundor (“separate, different”). Old Irish sain (“separated, different”), Ancient Greek ἄτερ (áter, “without, apart (from)”), and perhaps Latin sine (“without”).
Preposition
editsnai
Derived terms
edit- snai-olyapo (“incomparable”)
Further reading
edit- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “snai”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 779–781