Tocharish
(təˈkɑːrɪʃ, -ɛərɪʃ)
Also Tokharish.
[ad. G. tocharisch; see Tocharian a. and n., -ish1.]
The Tocharian language.
| 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 712/2 Up to 1909 only a preliminary account had been given of Tocharish, a hitherto unknown Indo-European language. 1926 J. R. R. Tolkien in Year's Work in Eng. Stud. 1924 27 The traditional Indo-European philology has suffered shocks in recent years, shocks from Tokharish and Hittite that begin at last to be felt even by the inexpert. 1939 [see Kuchaean, kuchean]. 1956 J. Whatmough Language ix. 179 Irish and Welsh have a middle or passive voice in -r, analogies to which are known in Hittite, Phrygian, Tocharish, Latin, [etc.]. |