upāsakāñca

Tocharian B

Etymology

From a form of upāsake (“layperson”) + the feminizing suffix -āñca.

Noun

upāsakāñca f

1. female layperson of a religious order

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “upāsakāñca”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 75