tāś

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tas"

Tocharian B

Etymology

Cognate with Tocharian A tāśśi pl (“chiefs, commanders”), from Proto-Tocharian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-yu-s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, *tag- (“to establish, (put in) order; to command, rule”).[1] Compare Ancient Greek τᾱγός (tāgós, “commander, ruler”) and Parthian 𐭕𐭂𐭌-𐭃𐭓 (tgm-dr /⁠tagma-dāra-⁠/, “commander”, literally “order-giver”).[2]

Noun

tāś ?[2]

  1. commander, chief

Derived terms
  • ṣle-taś (“commander of the mountain region”, literally “mountain-commander”)
  • ywārt-taś (“commander of the central region”, literally “center-commander”)
  • (perhaps) täk- (“to touch; to fetch”)

References
  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “?*tag- ‘ordnen, anordnen, aufstellen’”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 615
  2. Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “tāś”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 304
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