lyak
See also: lyäk-
Tocharian B
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from:
- Proto-Indo-European *légʰs, root noun from *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”); Adams assumes an intermediate meaning “one who lies in wait”
- Middle Chinese 掠 (MC ljangH|ljak, “to plunder, to rob, to be rapacious”). Cognate with Tocharian A lyäk.[1]
Noun
[edit]lyak
Derived terms
[edit]- lykuññe (“~ pertaining to a thief”)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “lyak”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 613
- ^ 2003, Alexander Lubotsky, Sergey Starostin, “Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian”, in Bauer, Brigitte L.M., Pinault, Georges-Jean, editors, Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, pages 257-269: