aṅkwaṣ

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Tocharian B

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Proto-Sogdic *angwažt, from Proto-Iranian *Hanguǰatu.[1]

Noun

aṅkwaṣ ?[2]

  1. asafoetida

Descendants

  • Chinese: 阿魏 (āwèi)[3]

References

  1. ^ Tremblay, Xavier (2005) “Irano-Tocharica et Tocharo-Iranica”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 68, number 3, page 438
  2. ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “aṅkwaṣ(ṭ)”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 7
  3. ^ Židek, Jan (2014) Tocharian Loanwords in Chinese (PhD dissertation), Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta