amāṃ

See also: amam and āmāṃ

Tocharian B

Etymology

Unknown; possibly borrowed alongside Tocharian A āmāṃ from Iranian, compare Ossetian амунд (amund, to admonish), Sogdian 𐼍𐼎𐼋 (mnk /⁠mank⁠/, fraud, deceit), [Syriac needed] (sqʾmʾnqyʾ /⁠skāmānkyā⁠/, arrogance), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (to think).[1]

Noun

amāṃ ?

  1. pride
  2. arrogance

References

  1. Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “āmāṃ”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 19
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