Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/kšnáwti
Proto-Indo-Iranian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *ksnéwti.
Verb
edit*kšnáwti[1]
Descendants
edit- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *kṣnáwti
- Sanskrit: क्ष्णौति (kṣṇáuti, “to whet, sharpen”)
- Proto-Iranian: *xšnáwti[2]
- Old Avestan: 𐬑𐬱𐬥𐬆𐬎𐬎𐬍𐬱𐬁 (xšnəuuīšā, 2sg.pres.)
- ⇒ Proto-Iranian: *aHxšnáwti (“to hear (< to sharpen (one's ears))”)
- Younger Avestan: 𐬑𐬱𐬥𐬆𐬎𐬎𐬍𐬱𐬁 (xšnəuuīšā)
- Gurani: ژنەۋای (žnawāy), ئەژنەۋای (ažnawāy), ئەژنیەی (ažniyay)
- Kurdish:
- Parthian:
- Old Persian: 𐎠𐎧𐏁𐎵𐎢𐎷𐎡𐎹 (a-x-š-nu-u-mi-i-y /āxšnumiy, āxšnūmiy/, “to hear”)
- Middle Persian:
- Manichaean script: [Manichaean needed] (šnwynd /āšnūyind/, 3pl.pres.act.)
- Persian: شنیدن (šenidan)
- Middle Persian:
References
edit- ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “ks·n·av”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
- ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*xšnau”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 456-457