Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/baywā́
Proto-Iranian
editEtymology
editThe origin is uncertain; perhaps related to Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰúHriš (“abundant, plentiful”).
Noun
edit- great multitude, myriad
- (later, dialectal) ten thousand
Derived terms
edit- *Baywr̥aspah[4] (male personal name)
- Old Ossetic:
- → Ancient Greek: Βαιόρασπος (Baióraspos) [220 CE, Tanais]
- Old Persian: *Baivaraspaʰ (literally “[having] ten thousand horses”) (male personal name)
- Middle Persian:
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (Bywlʾsp' /bēwarasp/)[5]
- Pazend script: 𐬠𐬀𐬈𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬁𐬯𐬞 (baeuuarāsp /baevarāsp/)
- Classical Persian: بیوَرَاسْپ (bēwarāsp), بیوَرَاسْب (bēwarāsb)
- → Old Armenian: Բիւրասպ (Biwrasp)
- Middle Persian:
- Old Ossetic:
Descendants
edit- Eastern Iranian:
- Younger Avestan: 𐬠𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (baēuuarə)
- Northeastern Iranian:
- Proto-Scythian:
- Old Ossetic:
- Ossetian:
- → Adyghe: бэрэ (bɛrɛ, “many times, a lot; long time”) (possibly)
- → Ancient Greek: Βαιόρμαιος (Baiórmaios) (personal name from Olbia)
- → Ancient Greek: Ὀυμβηούαρος (Oumbēoúaros) (personal name from Olbia)
- → Ancient Greek: Βευραζούρια (Beurazoúria) (personal name from Mtskheta)
- → Latin: Beorgus, Beorgor (5th c. Alanic king)
- Ossetian:
- Proto-Saka: *baiwárəm
- Khotanese: [script needed] (byūrru)[9]
- Old Ossetic:
- Sogdo-Bactrian:
- Proto-Scythian:
- Northwestern Iranian:
- Southwestern Iranian:
- Old Persian: *baivaram
References
edit- ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) “*baiu̯ar- / *baiu̯an-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 63–64
- ^ Bartholomae, Christian (1895–1901) “Vorgeschichte der iranischen Sprachen [Prehistory of the Iranian Languages]”, in Geiger, Wilhelm, Kuhn, Ernst, editors, Grundriß der iranischen Philologie [Outline of Iranian Philology] (in German), volume I, part I, Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, page 112
- ^ Bartholomae, Christian (1904) Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary][1] (in German), Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, column 913
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 62
- ^ Nyberg, H. S. (1974) “bēvar”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 47b
- ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2016) Einführung ins Ostmitteliranische [Introduction to East-Central Iranian][3] (in German), Jena: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- ^ Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 262
- ^ Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I][4] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 159–160
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 309
- ^ Gharib, B. (1995) “βryywr”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 111a