Tocharian A wds, B yasa

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Ante Aikio <anaikio at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:

>Now I have two questions:

>1) What was the Proto-Tocharian form?

I suppose *wya"sV < *wesV- (or *wisV-).

>(If it was something like *wVsV with
>front vowels, it fits quite well with Proto-Samoyed *wesd. A loan Samoyed >
>Tocharian is also geographically the most sensible alternative, if Tocharian
>was connected with the Afansevo culture.)

>2) Is there any other plausible etymology for the Tocharian word?

The most likely etymology still seems to be *h2wes- (*h2aus-).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl