Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/priHyás
Proto-Indo-Iranian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *priHyós.
Adjective
edit*priHyás[1]
Descendants
edit- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *priHyás
- Sanskrit: प्रिय (priyá) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Iranian: *friHyáh
- Avestan: 𐬟𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (friia, “dear, beloved, friend, well-wisher”)
- Khotanese: [script needed] (briya-, “beloved, dear, treasured”)
- Parthian: [script needed] (fryẖ, “dear, beloved”)
- Middle Persian: [script needed] (’fryẖ), [script needed] (’p̄ryẖ), [script needed] (’p̄ryy, “to create, to bless”)
- Persian: فری (fari, “dear, beloved, pleasing”) (archaic)
- Sogdian: [script needed] (pry-) (Buddhist), [script needed] (fry-, “dear”) (Christian, Manichaean)
References
edit- ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “priyá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University