aṅkwaṣ
Tocharian B
Alternative forms
- aṅkwaṣṭ
Etymology
Likely borrowed from Proto-Sogdic *angwažt, from Proto-Iranian *Hanguǰatu.[1]
Noun
aṅkwaṣ ?[2]
- asafoetida
Descendants
- → Chinese: 阿魏 (āwèi)[3]
References
- Tremblay, Xavier (2005), “Irano-Tocharica et Tocharo-Iranica”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 68, issue 3, page 438
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “aṅkwaṣ(ṭ)”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 7
- Židek, Jan (2014) Tocharian Loanwords in Chinese (PhD dissertation), Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta