Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/cáywaH
Proto-Iranian
editAlternative forms
edit- *cáyHwaH
Etymology
editUnknown; possibly from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćáyHwaH (“precious; treasure”) (whence Sanskrit शेव (śéva, “dear, precious”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéyH-weh₂, from *ḱeyH-.
Noun
edit*cáywaH f
Inflection
editaH-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *cáywaH | *cáyway | *cáywāh |
vocative | *cáyway | *cáyway | *cáywāh |
accusative | *cáywām | *cáyway | *cáywāh |
instrumental | *cáywayaH | *cáywaHbyā | *cáywaHbiš |
ablative | *cáywayaHh | *cáywaHbyā | *cáywaHbyah |
dative | *cáywayaHy | *cáywaHbyā | *cáywaHbyah |
genitive | *cáywayaHh | *cáywāyāh | *cáywaHnām |
locative | *cáywayaH | *cáywāyaw | *cáywaHsu |
Descendants
edit- Northwestern Iranian:
- Baluchi: سوپ (sóp)
- Kurdish:
- Proto-Medo-Parthian: *sáywā
- Southwestern Iranian:
- Middle Persian:
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (syp̄ /sēb/)
- Bakhtiari: سیڤ (sīv), سیو (seyw)
- Northern Luri: سؽڤ (sêv)
- Classical Persian: سیب (sēb), سیو (sēw)
- Middle Persian:
- → Sanskrit: सेव n (seva), सेवि n (sevi)[4] (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
edit- Borjian, Habib (2008) “The Extinct Language of Gurgan: Its Sources and Origins”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, page 700
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) “seva-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][2] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 520
- Morgenstierne, Georg (1973) “Chapter 7: Feminine nouns in -a in Western Iranian dialects”, in Irano-Dardica (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 5), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN
References
edit- ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (1929) “sēb”, in Parachi and Ormuri (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume I, Oslo: Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning; H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), page 286
- ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) “sēb”, in Iranian Pamir Languages (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning; H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), page 539
- ^ Novák, Ľubomír (2010) “sēb”, in Jaghnóbsko-český slovník (s přehledem jaghnóbské gramatiky) [Yaghnobi-Czech Dictionary with an Outline of Yaghnobi Grammar][1] (in Czech), Prague: Charles University in Prague, page 151
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sēvi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Categories:
- Proto-Iranian terms with unknown etymologies
- Proto-Iranian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Proto-Iranian terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Proto-Iranian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Iranian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Iranian lemmas
- Proto-Iranian nouns
- Proto-Iranian feminine nouns
- Proto-Iranian aH-stem nouns
- ira-pro:Fruits