Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/mákš
Proto-Indo-Iranian
editEtymology
editUncertain; presumably from Proto-Indo-European *mék-s ~ *m̥k-és, from Proto-Indo-European *mek-, possibly of substrate origin. Perhaps cognate with Lithuanian mãkatas (“midge”), if not itself borrowed from Iranian.
Noun
edit*mákš ~ *makás f
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mákš
- Vedic Sanskrit: मक्ष् (mákṣ)
- → Proto-Finno-Ugric: *mekše (“bee”) (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- ^ Benzing, Johannes (1983) “mkd”, in Chwaresmischer Wortindex, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 405
- ^ The template Template:R:wbl:ESVJa does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999) “maks”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN
Categories:
- Proto-Indo-Iranian terms with unknown etymologies
- Proto-Indo-Iranian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Indo-Iranian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Indo-Iranian terms derived from substrate languages
- Proto-Indo-Iranian lemmas
- Proto-Indo-Iranian nouns
- Proto-Indo-Iranian feminine nouns
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