Definition of Tocharian

1. Noun. A branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D..


Definition of Tocharian

1. Proper noun. An extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, consisting of two languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B, written in an abugida derived from Brahmi. ¹

2. Noun. Any member of a people who inhabited the (w Tarim Basin) and spoke Tocharian. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Tocharian or the Tocharians. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tocharian

Tobia fever
Tobiah
Tobias
Tobias George Smollett
Tobias Smollett
Tobias night
Tobin
Tobin bronze
Tobit
Tobler
Toblerone
Tobruk splint
Toby
Tocantins
Tocantins River
Tocharian
Tocharian A
Tocharian B
Tocharians
Tochigi
Tocqueville
Tocquevillian
Tod's muscle
Toda
Todaro
Todd
Todd's paralysis
Todd's postepileptic paralysis
Todd unit
Todea

Literary usage of Tocharian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence by Paul Vinogradoff (1920)
"... mata matar— tocharian macar Armenian mair Latin mater OHGerman. ... birth to the child": Sanskrit tocharian gna sen Old Armenian Gothic English kin ..."

2. The Home of the Indo-Europeans by Harold Herman Bender (1922)
"The tocharian has quite recently been used as the piece de resistance in a collection of arguments intended to prove the probability of the Asiatic origin ..."

3. The Home of the Indo-Europeans by Harold Herman Bender (1922)
"The tocharian has quite recently been used as the piece de resistance in a collection of arguments intended to prove the probability of the Asiatic origin ..."

4. Historical Grammar of the Ancient Persian Language by Edwin Lee Johnson (1917)
"To these groups is to be added tocharian, the newly discovered Indo-European language from Chinese Turkestan. 74. Indo-European. Other names that have been ..."

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