Reconstruction:Old Median/asmā

This Old Median 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.

Old Median

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hácmā.

Noun

*asmā^[1]

sky
stone

Derived terms

Old Median: *Asmaraupah
→ Elamite:
→ Achaemenid Elamite: 𒊍𒈠𒊏𒌋𒉺 (as-ma-ra-u-pa /⁠Asmaraupa⁠/)

Descendants

→ Old Persian: 𐎠𐎿𐎶𐎴 (asman)
- Middle Persian: (/⁠asmān⁠/)^[2]
  Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭠𐭮𐭬𐭠𐭭 (ʾsmʾn)
  Manichaean script: 𐫀𐫘𐫖𐫀𐫗 (ʾsmʾn)
  Book Pahlavi script: 𐮰𐮽𐮼𐮰𐮵𐮵 (ʾsmʾn')
  Psalter Pahlavi script: 𐮀𐮍𐮋𐮀𐮌 (ʾsmʾn)
  Pazend script: 𐬁𐬯𐬨𐬅 (āsmą̇)
  - Classical Persian: آسمان (âsmân)
    - Dari: آسمان (ā̊smā̊n)
    - Iranian Persian: آسمان (âsemân, âsmân)
    - Tajik: осмон (osmon)
      - → Talysh: осмон
    - → Baluchi: آسمان (ásmán)
    - → Gujarati: આસમાન (āsamān)
    - → Kermanic:
      Vonishuni, Qohrudi, Kesehi, Natanzi: ā̊semūn
      Zefrehi: ā̊smū
      Kafroni: ā̊s(e)mā̊n
      Meymehi: āsɛmūn
      Soi: āsemūn
    - → Hindi: आसमान (āsmān)
    - → Punjabi: ਆਸਮਾਨ (āsamān)
    - → Marwari: असमाण (asmāṇ)
    - → Sindhi: آسمان (āsmān)
    - → Sivandi: āsemān
    - → Urdu: آسمان (āsmān)

References

^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “*Asman-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 577: “577”
^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

[1] Tavernier, Jan (2007) “*Asman-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 577: “577”

[2] MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

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