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Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *käurp-, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-h₁-o-, from *kerp- (“to pluck”), a form of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with English harvest, German Herbst (“autumn”), Latin carpo (“to pluck”), Lithuanian kirpti (“to chop”), etc.
Verb
kurp-
- to be concerned with
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “kurp-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 196