Kuchaean, Kuchean
(kʊˈtʃiːən)
[ad. F. koutchéen (S. Lévi 1913, in Jrnl. Asiatique II. 315), f. Kucha, the name of a town in Sinkiang, China: see -an.]
The western dialect of Tocharian, Tocharian B. Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1939 Cambr. Anc. Hist. XII. iii. 97 A..language formerly known as Tocharish but now more correctly called the Kuchean or Turfanese language. 1939 L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 101 Kuchaean ñäkte ‘god’. Ibid. 322 Relatively little of Kuchaean is yet accessible. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet vi. 348 There is..a general agreement to call ‘Dialect B’ [of Tocharian] Kuchean. 1965 Language XLI. 108 The Kuchean 3 pl. preterite of käm ‘come’ is kamem. 1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Lang. 254 It was subsequently established that Tocharian B was the language proper to Kucha and may therefore be called Kuchean. |