Like Dust on the Silk Road : On the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian /

Like Dust on the Silk Road : On the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian /

How did the Tocharians reach China? "Who did they meet on the way?" are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, Tocharians were in contact with an Iranian people living in the south S...

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Main Author: Bernard, Chams Benoît (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025
Leiden Studies in Indo-European ; 27.

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Languages and Linguistics.
Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Call Number: P57.I4

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Tocharian and Iranian
  • 1.2 State of the art
  • 1.3 Research issues
  • 1.4 Methodology
  • 1.5 Structure
  • 1.6 Spelling of Tocharian stress
  • 1.7 Alphabetic order
  • 2 Old Steppe Iranian Loanwords in Tocharian
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Old Steppe Iranian borrowings: plausible cases
  • 2.3 Old Steppe Iranian borrowings: possible cases
  • 2.4 Old Steppe Iranian borrowings: difficult cases
  • 2.5 Old Steppe Iranian borrowings: rejected cases
  • 2.6 Old Steppe Iranian calques in Tocharian
  • 2.7 Discussion of the features of Old Steppe Iranian
  • 3 BMAC Words in Tocharian (a Selective Survey)
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Analysis of potential BMAC loanwords in Tocharian
  • 3.3 Other possible BMAC loanwords in Tocharian
  • 3.4 Discussion
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 4.1 Results
  • 4.2 The Tocharian way
  • Appendix 1: The Tocharian Word for 'Parrot' and Its Origin
  • Appendix 2: On the Etymology of Tocharian B patstsāṅk and Tocharian A pātsaṅk 'Window'
  • Bibliography
  • Index.