𐫗𐫖𐫏𐫍𐫐
Middle Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- nmk' (/namak/) — Book Pahlavi
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Iranian *namadka-, perhaps a compound of *ná (“no”) + *mad(a) (“wet”) + *-akah (“nominal suffix, -ic”), the first two components from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ná (“no, not”) + Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to become wet”), literally "no-moisture"; that is, the salt that is left after evaporation of water.[1] Alternative theories derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, moisture”) and relate it to Persian نم (nam, “moisture, humidity”).[1][2] Compare Bactrian ναμιλγο (namilgo).
Noun
[edit]𐫗𐫖𐫏𐫍𐫐 • (nmyhk /namak, namehk/)[3][4]
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*namad(a)ka-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 464
- ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) “Nebh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 323
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “namak”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- ^ Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, page 244a