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Reconstruction:Old Persian/ciθrah

 This Old Persian 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 Persian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Old Median *ciθrah[1] or Avestan 𐬗𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 (ciθra), both from Proto-Iranian *ciθráh. Displaced doublet of 𐎨𐎡𐏂 (c-i-ç /⁠čiçaʰ⁠/).

Noun edit

*ciθrah[1]

  1. form, appearance
  2. nature, essence
  3. face

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Old Median *ciθrah or Avestan 𐬗𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 (ciθra), both from Proto-Iranian *ciθrá. Displaced doublet of 𐎨𐎡𐏂 (c-i-ç /⁠čiçaʰ⁠/).

Noun edit

*ciθrah

  1. seed
  2. lineage

Descendants edit

  • Middle Persian: (/⁠čihr⁠/)
    Manichaean script: 𐫝𐫏𐫍𐫡 (cyhr)
    Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (cyhl)
    • Classical Persian: چهر (cihr)

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)‎[1], Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 13: “*ciθra-”
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