Reconstruction:Old Persian/šarguš

This Old Persian 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 Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *cárguš.

Noun

*šarguš^[1]^[2]^[3]

lion

Derived terms

*Šargučīš^[2]
- → Elamite: 𒃻𒅕𒆪𒍢𒅖 (šá-ir-ku-zí-iš /⁠Šairkuziš⁠/)
*Šargudātah^[2]^[3]
- → Elamite: 𒃻𒅕𒆪𒁕𒁕 (šá-ir-ku-da-da /⁠Šairkudada⁠/)
*Šarguniyah^[2]^[3]
- → Elamite: 𒃻𒅕𒆪𒉌𒉿 (šá-ir-ku-ni-ya /⁠Šairkuniya⁠/), 𒃻𒅕𒆪𒉡𒅀 (šá-ir-ku-nu-ia /⁠Šairkuniya⁠/)

Descendants

Early Middle Persian: (/⁠šagr⁠/)
Manichaean script: 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr)

Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (šgr)
- Late Middle Persian:
  Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (šyr /⁠šēr⁠/)
  - Classical Persian: شیر (šêr)
    Dari: شیر (šêr)
    Iranian Persian: شیر (šîr)
    Tajik: шер (šer)
    → Baluchi: شیر (šēr)
    → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शेर (śer)
    Urdu: شیر (śer)
    → Pashto: شېر (šēr)
    → Turkic: /šēr ~ šīr/
    → Ottoman Turkish: شیر (şîr)
    Turkish: şir
    → Turkmen: şir (šīr)
    → Uzbek: sher (šēr) (via Tajiki dialect)
  - →? Old Chinese: 師 (OC *sri, “lion”)

References

^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 60: “OP *sargu- > EMP šagr, LMP sēr ‘lion’”
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Tavernier, Jan (2007) 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
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 229

[1] Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 60: “OP *sargu- > EMP šagr, LMP sēr ‘lion’”

[Tavernier-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Tavernier, Jan (2007) 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

[Hinz-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 229

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