Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/HwiHćati

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 *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, from *dwih₁ḱm̥ti.

Numeral edit

*HwiHćati

twenty

Descendants edit

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *HwiHśatí
- Sanskrit: विंशति (viṃśatí) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *HwiHcati (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Nuristani: *wīcatí
- Northern Nuristani:
  - Kamkata-viri:
    Kamviri: vićí
    
    Kativiri: vëćë́
  - Prasuni: źú (< *vźú)
- Southern Nuristani:
  - Ashkun: viší
  - Tregami: viší (with š from Indo-Aryan)
  - Waigali: viši (with š from Indo-Aryan)

References edit

Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages‎^[1], Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass.
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wīst”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
Monier Williams (1899) “Proto-Indo-Iranian/HwiHćati”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0953.