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Tocharian B
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *kuse, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷusó < *kʷos, *kʷis. Compare Tocharian A kus. Almost identical to Albanian kush from Proto-Albanian *kusa.
Pronoun
kᵤse
- (interrogative) who
Kᵤse [pi] ksa wesäñ kekamor orocce lant sársäṣṣi?- Who come to us that he might know the great king?
- (relative) whoever, who, which, the one who
[Mā] sū nesäm kᵤse onwaññe tākoy.- There is no one who is immortal.
Derived terms
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “kᵤse”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 199-200