Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/Hákši

This Proto-Indo-Iranian 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.

Proto-Indo-Iranian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷs.

Noun edit

*Hákši n

(anatomy) eye

Descendants edit

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Hákṣi
- Sanskrit: अक्षि (ákṣi) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *Háxši, *Háši
- Avestan: 𐬀𐬱𐬌 (aši, “both eyes”)
- Middle Persian: (/⁠aš⁠/, “devil eye”)
  Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾš)
  
  Pazend script: 𐬀𐬱 (aš)
  - Classical Persian: اش (aš, “eye”) (only as compartment in some words; e.g., غاوش (ğâvaš, “(lit.) cow-eye; (agr.) large cucumber, grape”) the word غاو (ğâw) is loaned from eastern Iranian languages and cognate with Classical Persian (gāw) the original one.)
Proto-Nuristani: (< *HáčiH du)
- Northern Nuristani:
  - Kamkata-viri:
    Kativiri: ačé
  - Prasuni: ižĩ́, ižī́
- Southern Nuristani:
  - Ashkun: aćĩ́
  - Tregami: ac̣ĩ́ (with irregular c̣ from Indo-Aryan)
  - Waigali: ačẽ
- ⇒ Proto-Nuristani: (remodeled after अक्षाणि (akṣāṇi))
  - Northern Nuristani:
    - Kamkata-viri:
      Kamviri: ačẽ́

References edit

Jakob Halfmann (2023) Lād "law": a Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom, page 4