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koṃ

See also: kom, KOM, köm, kom̧, kǫm, kɔm, and KOM.

Tocharian A

Noun

koṃ

References

↑ Werner Winter, Brigitte L. M. Bauer, Georges-Jean Pinault - "Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Volume144 - Trends in linguistics / Studies and monographs: Studies and monographs." 2003: 257-58.

Meillet 1914: "Tel autre mot comme B kaum 'jour' rappelle le turc": 19.
Albert Joris van Windekens, 1941: "Lexique étymologique des dialectes tokhariens. Louvain: Muséon."
Albert Joris van Windekens, 1976: "Le tokharien confronté avec les autres langues indo-européennes. Vol. 1. La phonétique et le vocabulaire. (Travaux publiés par le Centre International de Dialectologie Générale de l'Université Catholique Néerlandaise de Louvain. Fasc. XI). Louvain: Centre International de Dialectologie Générale."
Werner Winter, 1963: "Tocharians and Turks. Uralic and Altaic studies." vol. 23: 239-251.

Etymology

Compare Tocharian B kauṃ, from Proto-Tocharian *kaun. Likely borrowed from Proto-Turkic *gün. Meilet (1914: 19) for the first time noticed the similarity with the Turkic words for "sun": kün/gün ("sun, day"). While Windekens (1941) suggested a borrowing from Tocharian into Turkic, Pedersen (1944: 11) was in favor of a necessarily opposite borrowing from Turkic into Tocharian. This was later acknowledged by Windekens (1976: 627). The dating of borrowing is dated by the Proto-Tocharian period. Winter suggested a connection with Ancient Greek καíω ‎(kaíō, “to kindle, set on fire”)), which root, however, is isolated in Indo-European. The combination of the meanings "sun" and "day" also seem to be very unusual in the Indo-European languages, which strongly indicates a borrowing into Tocharian.^[1]