User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/frušah

This 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.

Proto-Iranian edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain; possibly related to Sanskrit प्रोष् (proṣ, drip, splash; pour (of milk)), प्रुष्णुते (pruṣṇute, to moisten, sprinkle), प्रुषायते (pruṣāyáte, to become wet).

Noun edit

*frušah[1]

  1. beestings, colostrum
  2. thick dairy products

Descendants edit

  • Central Iranian:
  • Northeastern Iranian:
    • Khotanese: [script needed] (phrrūmä)
    • Khwarezmian: [script needed] (ʾfrwšk), [script needed] (ʾfrwšyk)
  • Southeastern Iranian:
  • Northwestern Iranian:
  • Southwestern Iranian:
    • Middle Persian: (beestings)
      Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (plwsk' /⁠frušag⁠/)

References edit

  1. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) “*frauš- : fruš-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 66-68
  2. ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger, editor (1989), Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum[1], Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 404:*frušii̯ah?