nyšʾn'
Middle Persian edit
Alternative forms edit
- 𐫗𐫏𐫢𐫀𐫗 (nyšʾn /nīšān/)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Iranian *ni- + Proto-Iranian *yaš- (“to show, appear”), with further connections outside of Indo-Iranian uncertain. Not from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“to see”), despite superficial phonetic and semantic similarity. Compare Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa, “spiritual apparition”).
Noun edit
nyšʾn' • (nīšān)
Descendants edit
References edit
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “nīšān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 213-214