oktaśke
Tocharian B
Etymology
Uncertain. Probably a form of okt (“eight”), possibly as a partial calque of Sanskrit of अष्टका (aṣṭakā, “eight day after a full moon”) or अष्टमी (aṣṭamī, “eight day in a half month”).
Noun
oktaśke ?
- a type of festival
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “oktaśke”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 116