Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/mr̥tyúš
Proto-Indo-Iranian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”).
Noun edit
*mr̥tyúš m[1]
Descendants edit
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mr̥tyúṣ
- Sanskrit: मृत्यु (mṛtyú) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Iranian: *mr̥θyúš
References edit
- ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger (2017–2018) “Chapter XVII: Indo-Iranian”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The lexicon of Indo-Iranian, page 1952: “*mr̥t-i̯ú-”