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On the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian
Series: Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 27;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 12 June 2025
- ISBN 9789004732520
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 636 g
- Language English 678
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Short description:
This book concerns the oldest layers of loanwords in Tocharian, namely BMAC and Old Steppe Iranian loanwords, and it reconstructs the features of the Old Iranian language in contact with Tocharian, as well as a second variety of the BMAC language.
MoreLong description:
"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 Siberian Steppes, and with a people related to the Oxus Civilization (BMAC). This Iranian people spoke a specific language, called here “Old Steppe Iranian”. They gave Tocharians many words, such as mañiye ‘servant’, etswe ‘burden-carrying horse’ or ‘mule’, pāke ‘portion, share’. The BMAC-related people gave the Tocharians other words such as etre ‘hero’ and kercapo ‘donkey’. This book reconstructs features of the language of both these peoples, and examines how they influenced the Tocharians. Based on the latest archaeological findings, it also suggests a reconstruction of the chronology and the way the Tocharians followed before entering the Tarim Basin.
Winner of the 2nd prize for the best dissertation of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft prize for the best Indo-European studies dissertation.
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 &&&x2018;Parrot&&&x2019; and Its Origin
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Bibliography
Index
