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Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *w'īkän, from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (cognate with Latin vīgintī, Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi), Doric ϝείκατι (weíkati), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vīsaiti), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Armenian քսան (kʻsan), Albanian (një)zet, Welsh ugain). Compare Tocharian A wiki and Tocharian B ikäṃ, both of which seem to be from the same PIE form.
Numeral
ikäṃ
- twenty
- Waimene ikäṃ pkārsa wäntärwa!
- "Know the twenty difficult things!"
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ikäṃ”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 66-67