| Word | kest | 
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| IPA | kest | 
| Meaning | hunger | 
| See also | 
                    Hittite: *ga-a-aš-z[a]
                    ‘hunger, famine’ Tocharian A: kaṣt ‘hunger, famine’  | 
        
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                 Comments  | 
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| Douglas Q. Adams, “Etymological Dictionary of Tocharian B”, 1999, Brill | |
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                 Other words that might be of interest  | 
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| oko ‘fruit’, misa ‘meat’, salyiye ‘salt’, kanti ‘bread’, kewiye ‘butter’, māśak ‘bean’, māṣikāni ‘bean, a kind of’, mutkavarṇi ‘bean, moth’, päk-1 ‘boil’, aise ‘cauldron, cooking pot’, ṣarwiye ‘cheese’, yokasto ‘drink’, yok- ‘to drink’, yäkṣiye ‘flour’, āhār ‘food’, śwātsi ‘food’, kariśke ‘fruit’, cautāṃ ‘honey’, mīt ‘honey’, kṣur ‘knife’, malkwer ‘milk’, kontac(e) ‘nut’, salyitstse ‘salty’, yokiye ‘thirst’, cagala ‘wine’ | |