ʾsplys

Middle Persian

From SWSYA / ʾsp̄ (asp, “horse”) +‎ lyc- (rēz-, “to flow, pour; *to run”).^[1] For the sense development of the latter compare Middle Persian tʾhtn' (tāxtan, “to cause to run, flow; to chase; to pour”), Armenian վազել (vazel, “to flow; to run”).^[1] Alternatively, the second component is the cognate of Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬉𐬯𐬋 (uruuaēsō, “turning point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wróyḱos, from *wreyḱ-.^[2]^[3] The second component is found separately in the Aramaic borrowing בית ריסא (/⁠byt rysˀ⁠/, “race track”).^[4]^[5]

ʾsplys • (asprēs)^[6]

(Taking Middle Persian as representative of all Middle Iranian)

Classical Persian: اسپریس (asprēs)
→ Old Armenian: ասպարէզ (asparēz), ասպարէս (asparēs)
- Armenian: ասպարեզ (asparez)
- →? Old Georgian: ასპარეზი (asṗarezi) (or directly from Middle Persian)
  - Georgian: ასპარეზი (asṗarezi)
→ Classical Syriac: ܐܣܦܪܝܣܐ (ʾespərēsāʾ)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ասպարէզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 273b
^ Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26)‎^[1] (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 20–23
^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 867
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Telegdi, S. (1935) “Essai sur la phonétique des emprunts iraniens en araméen Talmudique”, in Journal asiatique‎^[2] (in French), volume 226, page 255 of 177–256
^ “byt**rys”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 12

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Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 109
Schmitt, Rüdiger (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 1. General”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica‎^[3], volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 451b of 445–459
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