Reconstruction:Tocharian B/kurkam
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Tocharian B[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Likely 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