Reconstruction:Old Persian/jamānā
Old Persian
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editFrom Proto-Iranian *ǰámaHnaH.
Noun
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edit- Middle Persian: (/zamān/)
- Manichaean script: 𐫉𐫗𐫀𐫗 (zmʾn)
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ẕmʾn'), [Book Pahlavi needed] (zmn'), [Book Pahlavi needed] (ODNA)
- Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭥𐭣𐭭𐭠 (ODNA)
- Persian: زمان (zamân)
- → Armenian: զաման (zaman)
- → Azerbaijani: zaman
- → Bashkir: заман (zaman)
- → Gilaki: [script needed] (zəmån)
- → Kazakh: заман (zaman)
- → Kermanic:
- Qohrudi: zamān
- → Khalaj: zamân
- → Central Kurdish: زهمان (zeman)
- → Kyrgyz: заман (zaman)
- → Malay: زمان / zaman
- → Ossetian: за́ман (záman)
- → Pashto: زمانه (zamâna)
- → Ottoman Turkish: زمان (zaman)
- → Tatar: заман (zaman)
- → Waigali: zëmën
- → Akkadian: 𒋛𒈠𒉡 (si-ma-nu /simānu/)[3]
- → Imperial Aramaic: 𐡆𐡌𐡍𐡀 (zmnʾ)[4][5][2][6] (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- ^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 68: “OP *jamāna- > MP zamān”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hinz, Walther (1975) “*jamāna-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 142
- ^ contra Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)[2], Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 91–92, the chronology still allows this, and an isolated Old Babylonian discovery for otherwise late occurrence shapes an exception that proves the rule.
- ^ Nöldeke, Theodor (1875) Mandäische Grammatik[3] (in German), Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, page 152
- ^ Růžička, Rudolf (1909) “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[4] (in German), volume VI, number 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, pages 92–93
- ^ Panaino, Antonio (2017) “The Origins of Middle Persian Zamān and Related Words: A Controversial Etymological History”, in Iran & the Caucasus[5], volume 21, number 2, Leiden: Brill, , pages 150–195