User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/kunčit

Proto-Iranian

Etymology

Presumably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kunćitas, whence Sanskrit कुञ्चित (kuñcita, “crooked, curved, curled”)^[1], compare कुञ्चिका (kuñcikā, “fennel flower seed”).

Noun

*kunčit^[2]

sesame

Descendants

Northeastern Iranian:
- Proto-Saka: *kunciti^[3]
  - Khotanese: [script needed] (kuṃjsata)
- Sogdo-Bactrian:
  - Khwarezmian: كنڅد (knśd)
  - Proto-Sogdic: *kunčit^[3]
    - Sogdian: [script needed] (kwyštʾyc /⁠kwištēč⁠/)
    - → Uyghur: كۈنچىت (künchit)^[3]
Southeastern Iranian:
- Pashto: کنځله f (kunźë́la), کونځله f (kunźë́la)
  Kakari: [script needed] (kunźatī)
  
  Waziri: [script needed] (kunjël)
Northwestern Iranian:
- Baluchi: [script needed] (kunčit), [script needed] (kunčīθ)
- Kurdish: m
  Northern Kurdish: kuncî
  
  Central Kurdish: کونجی (kuncî)
- Mazanderani: [script needed] (konji)
- Kermanic:
  Abuzeydabadi: konjet
  
  Abyanehi: konjī
  
  Qohrudi: kanjī
Southwestern Iranian:
- Middle Persian: (/⁠kunjid, kunjēd⁠/)
  Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ŠMŠMN), [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwncyt')
  - Classical Persian: کنجد (kunjed)
    - Iranian Persian: کنجد (konjed), کنجید (konjid), کنجید (konjid)
    - Tajik: кунҷид (kunjid)
    - → Middle Armenian: քնճութ (kʻnčutʻ)
      - Armenian: քնջութ (kʻnǰutʻ), Armenian: քունջութ (kʻunǰutʻ)
      - → Georgian: ქუნჯუტი (kunǯuṭi)
  - → Old Armenian: կնճիթ (knčitʻ), կնջիթ (knǰitʻ), կնջիւթ (knǰiwtʻ), կնճութ (knčutʻ), կնճիթն (knčitʻn), կանճուտ (kančut), կաճուտ (kačut)
  - → Pashto: کنجت m pl (kunjë́t), کنجدي f pl (kunjídi)
→ Proto-Tocharian:
- Tocharian A: kuñcit^[3]
- Tocharian B: kuñcit, kwäñcit^[3]
→ Common Turkic: *künčit

Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 95
Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, page 288
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 727-728

^ Morgenstierne, Georg (2003) Elfenbein, J., MacKenzie, D. N., Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editors, A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN, page 46
^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) “kuṃjsata-”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 61-62
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 Tremblay, Xavier (2005) “Irano-Tocharica et Tocharo-Iranica”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎^[2], volume 68, number 3

[1] Morgenstierne, Georg (2003) Elfenbein, J., MacKenzie, D. N., Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editors, A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN, page 46

[2] Bailey, H. W. (1979) “kuṃjsata-”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 61-62

[Tremblay-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 Tremblay, Xavier (2005) “Irano-Tocharica et Tocharo-Iranica”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎^[2], volume 68, number 3

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User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/kunčit

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Proto-Iranian

Etymology

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