Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/kanH-
Proto-Indo-Iranian
editEtymology 1
editPerhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kenh₂- (“to be pleased, enjoy”), infixed nasal stem of *keh₂- (“to like, wish”).
Root
edit*kanH- or *čanH-
- to love, take pleasure in
Descendants
editDerived terms
edit- *kanHati
- *čánHas (deverbative noun)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ćánHas
- Sanskrit: चनस् (cánas, “delight, satisfaction”)
- Proto-Iranian: *čínHah, *čánHah
- Avestan: -𐬗𐬌𐬥𐬀𐬵- (-cinah-), -𐬗𐬀𐬥𐬀𐬵- (-canah-, “desire, affection”), in the compounds 𐬀𐬱𐬀-𐬗𐬌𐬥𐬀𐬵- (aša-cinah-, “attached to aša”), 𐬥𐬁𐬌𐬭𐬌-𐬗𐬌𐬥𐬀𐬵- (nāiri-cinah-, “desiring a woman/women”), 𐬴𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬋-𐬗𐬌𐬥𐬀𐬵- (ṣ̌aētō-cinah-, “desiring money”), 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀-𐬗𐬌𐬥𐬀- (haoma-cina-, “desiring haoma”), etc.
- Old Persian: 𐎨𐎴𐏃 (c-n-h /canah-/, “desire”), in the compound 𐎠𐎿𐎱𐎨𐎴𐎠 (a-s-p-c-n-a /Aspacanāʰ/, “a male given name”, literally “lover of horses”) (see there for further descendants)
- Parthian:
- Manichaean: [Manichaean needed] (šʾdcn /šād-čan, šād-žan/, “happy, glad”)
- Sogdian: [script needed] (-cn /-čan/, “a morpheme forming future participles; a suffix with the meaning “inclined to; belonging to””), [script needed] (pʾšcn /pāš-čan/, “showing reverence”)
- Khotanese: [script needed] (dirsū-jsinä, “wishing to see”), [script needed] (daṃjanai, “building”) ← *dama-čana-ka- (literally “connected with the building”)
- Ossetian:
- → Old Armenian: -ճան (-čan)
- ⇒? Proto-Iranian: *čanHadāru (literally “auspicious tree”)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ćánHas
- Unsorted formations:
Usage notes
editCheung remarks that the nominal derivative *čánHah has become a suffix of "wish" in several languages, semantically comparable to Ancient Greek -φιλος (-philos, “-phile”).
References
edit- Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) “*čan- / *čin-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 217–218
- Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) “*³kan- : *čan- / *čin-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 216–217
- Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 233f
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][3] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 296f, 528
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2014) “Armenian čandari ‘plane tree’”, in Iran and the Caucasus[4], volume 18, number 1, pages 51–63
Etymology 2
editA root of unclear origin, possibly from a root Proto-Indo-European *kenh₁- (“to dig”); tentatively cognate with Phrygian [script needed] (keneman, “a monument or a part of it”),[1][2][3][4] as well as perhaps Lithuanian kója (“leg”).[5] The unetymological aspiration of the Sanskrit descendants is perhaps from analogy with another word with similar phonetics and semantics, usually assumed to be खा (khā, “source, spring”).[1]
Root
edit*kanH- or *čanH-
Derived terms
edit- Unsorted formations:
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 232-3
- ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 199-200
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 445-6
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “khani”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 275–276
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “kója”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego[2] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 303-4
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 252