ŠNT

See also: snt, SNT, snṯ, and šnṯ

Middle Persian

FWOTD – 20 September 2017

Alternative forms

• 𐭱𐭭𐭲 (ŠNT /⁠sāl⁠/) — Inscriptional Pahlavi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-?

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćarHáts

Proto-Iranian *carHdáh

Old Persian 𐎰𐎼𐎭 (θ-r-d)

Middle Persian ŠNT

From Old Persian 𐎰𐎼𐎭 (θ-r-d /⁠θard-, θarad-⁠/, “year”), from Proto-Iranian *carHdáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćarHáts, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (“to warm up, to be hot”). Compare the second component of Old Armenian loanwords նաւա-սարդ (nawa-sard), երիտա-սարդ (erita-sard), աւ-սարդ (aw-sard). Logogram from Aramaic 𐡔𐡍𐡕 (šnt, “year”)..

Noun

ŠNT • (sāl)

1. year
   • Wizīdagīhā ī Zādspram, chapter 3, line 28

     PWN 1000 ŠNT gwhl Y kwp BYN zmyk' YHBWNt YKOYMWNʾt

     pad hazār sāl gōhr ī kōf andar zamīg dād ēstād

     for a thousand years the substance of the mountains had been created in the earth.

Derived terms

• sʾlwʾl (sālwār)
• -ŠNTk' (-sālag)
• -ŠNTkyh (-sālagīh)

 

Descendants

• Persian: سال (sâl)
  • → Azerbaijani: sal
  • → Bengali: সাল (śal)
  • → Gujarati: સાલ (sāl)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: साल (sāl)

    Urdu: سال (sāl)

  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਸਾਲ (sāl)
    • Shahmukhi script: سال (sāl)
  • → Sindhi: سال

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “sāl”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press