sākre

See also: sakre, sakrę, and säkre

Tocharian B

Etymology

Disputed. According to Adams, probably from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-.^[1] It is perhaps derived from the same Proto-Indo-European adjective as Latin sacer (“sacred”) and Welsh hagr (“ugly”).^[2] However, it has also been proposed that the Tocharian term may be a borrowing from an Iranian language. According to this theory, the term may relate to Khotanese sĪra- (“content, happy, satisfied”).^[3]^[4]

Adjective

sākre

happy, blissful
blessed, auspicious

References

^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 744
^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “*sakros”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 493
^ Weiss, Michael (2020), “The Inner Revolution: Old but Not That Old”, in Serangeli, Matilde, Olander, Thomas, editors, Dispersals and Diversification: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Early Stages of Indo-European‎^[1], Brill, →DOI, page 13
^ Tremblay, Xavier (2005), “Irano-Tocharica et Tocharo-Iranica”, in Bulletin of SOAS‎^[2], volume 68, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 441

[1] Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 744

[2] Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “*sakros”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 493

[3] Weiss, Michael (2020), “The Inner Revolution: Old but Not That Old”, in Serangeli, Matilde, Olander, Thomas, editors, Dispersals and Diversification: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Early Stages of Indo-European‎^[1], Brill, →DOI, page 13

[4] Tremblay, Xavier (2005), “Irano-Tocharica et Tocharo-Iranica”, in Bulletin of SOAS‎^[2], volume 68, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 441

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