LEADER 03984nam 22005172 450 001 9911018868403321 005 20251019235429.0 010 $a9789004732537$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789004732520 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004732537 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32130546 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32130546 035 $a(CKB)38923970700041 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004732537 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938923970700041 100 $a20250506d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLike Dust on the Silk Road $eOn the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian /$fChams Benoi?t Bernard 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d2025. 210 4$d©2025 215 $a1 online resource (308 pages) 225 1 $aLanguage and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025 225 1 $aLeiden Studies in Indo-European ;$v27 311 08$aPrint version: Benoît Bernard, Chams Like Dust on the Silk Road Boston : BRILL,c2025 9789004732520 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tAcknowledgments -- 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 ?Parrot? and Its Origin -- Appendix 2: On the Etymology of Tocharian B patstsa?n?k and Tocharian A pa?tsan?k ?Window? -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aHow did the Tocharians reach China? "Who did they meet on the way?? are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, Tocharians were in contact with an Iranian people living in the south Siberian Steppes, and with a people related to the Oxus Civilization (BMAC). This Iranian people spoke a specific language, called here ?Old Steppe Iranian?. They gave Tocharians many words, such as man?iye ?servant?, etswe ?burden-carrying horse? or ?mule?, pa?ke ?portion, share?. The BMAC-related people gave the Tocharians other words such as etre ?hero? and kercapo ?donkey?. This book reconstructs features of the language of both these peoples, and examines how they influenced the Tocharians. Based on the latest archaeological findings, it also suggests a reconstruction of the chronology and the way the Tocharians followed before entering the Tarim Basin. Winner of the 2nd prize for the best dissertation of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft prize for the best Indo-European studies dissertation. 410 0$aLanguage and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025 410 0$aLeiden Studies in Indo-European ;$v27. 517 3 $aOn the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian 606 $aLanguages and Linguistics 606 $aMiddle East and Islamic Studies 615 0$aLanguages and Linguistics. 615 0$aMiddle East and Islamic Studies. 676 $a418/.007/054 700 $aBernard$b Chams Benoi?t$f1994-$01841500 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 912 $a9911018868403321 996 $aLike Dust on the Silk Road$94421242 997 $aUNINA