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Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/
cwiθráh
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This
Proto-Iranian
entry contains
reconstructed terms and roots
. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly
attested
, but are hypothesized to have existed based on
comparative
evidence.
Contents
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Proto-Iranian
1.1
Etymology
1.2
Noun
1.2.1
Descendants
1.3
References
Proto-Iranian
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Etymology
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From
Proto-Indo-Iranian
*ćwitrás
.
Noun
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*cwiθráh
m
[
1
]
white
,
shining
Descendants
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Southeastern Iranian:
Pashto:
سپېره
(
sperä
,
“
light-gray
”
)
Northwestern Iranian:
Old Median:
*spiθrah
(
“
heaven
”
)
(
nominalization
)
→
Old Persian:
*spiθrah
Middle Persian:
(
/spihr/
)
Manichaean script:
𐫙𐫘𐫛𐫏𐫡
(
ʿspyr
)
Book Pahlavi script:
[Book Pahlavi needed]
(
spyhl
)
,
[script needed]
(
spyyhl
)
Persian:
سپهر
(
sepehr
)
Southwestern Iranian:
Old Persian:
*siçah
→
Sanskrit:
सीस
(
sī́sa
,
“
lead
”
)
References
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^
Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (
2015
)
Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)
[1]
, Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page
13
:
“
*śu̯itra-
”
Categories
:
Proto-Iranian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Iranian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱweyt-
Proto-Iranian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
Proto-Iranian terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
Proto-Iranian lemmas
Proto-Iranian nouns
Proto-Iranian masculine nouns
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