Reconstruction:Old Median/farnāh

This Old Median entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Median edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Iranian *huHarnā́h.

Noun edit

*farnāh^[1]

Descendants edit

→ Old Persian: *farnāh
- Middle Persian: 𐫛𐫡𐫍 (prh /⁠farrah⁠/) (< gen.sg. *farnahaʰ)
  - Classical Persian: فره (farrah)
    Dari: فر (farr)
    Iranian Persian: فر (far(r))
    Tajik: фарр (farr)
  - → Arabic: فَخْر (faḵr)
  - → Old Armenian: փառք (pʻaṙkʻ)
  - → Bactrian: φαρο (faro), φαρρο (farro)
  - → Parthian: 𐫛𐫡𐫍 (prh /⁠farrah⁠/)^[2]
→ Proto-Scythian: *fārnā
- Khotanese: [script needed] (phārra)
- Proto-Ossetic: *fārna
  - Old Ossetic: *farnæ
    - Ossetian:
      Digor Ossetian: фарнӕ (farnæ)
      
      Iron Ossetian: фарн (farn)
→ Sogdian: (/⁠farn⁠/)
Manichaean script: 𐫜𐫡𐫗 (frn)

Old Sogdian script: 𐼔𐼘𐼏 (prn)

Syriac script: [Syriac needed] (fn)

References edit

^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 77: “Med. *farnah-ah (gen. < *farnah- > OP °farnah-) > MP farrah ‘fortune, glory, splendour’ (cf. ZMP xwarrah < YAv. xvarənah-).)”
^ Korn, Agnes (2010) “Parthian ž”, in Bulletin of SOAS, volume 73, number 3, Cambridge University Press, →JSTOR, page 422

[Rezai_77a-1] Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 77: “Med. *farnah-ah (gen. < *farnah- > OP °farnah-) > MP farrah ‘fortune, glory, splendour’ (cf. ZMP xwarrah < YAv. xvarənah-).)”

[2] Korn, Agnes (2010) “Parthian ž”, in Bulletin of SOAS, volume 73, number 3, Cambridge University Press, →JSTOR, page 422

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