Reconstruction:Old Persian/θigrah
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Proto-Sarmatian *ćiǧr (whence Alanic *cirǧ (“sharp; garlic”)), from Proto-Scythian *tiǧri. Doublet of 𐎫𐎥𐎼 (t-g-r /tigraʰ/, “sharp”).[1]
Noun
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle Persian: (/sigr, sīr/)
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (syl), [script needed] (TWMʾ)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lubotsky, Alexander (2002) “Scythian elements in Old Iranian”, in Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editor, Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples[1], Oxford University Press, , pages 195-196, 198-199
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tavernier, Jan (2007) “1.4.12.6 Θaigracis (Θ-a-i-g-r-č-i-š)”, 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 39: “39”
- ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2003) Beekes, R.S.P., Lubotsky, A., Weitenberg, J.J.S., editors, The Avestan Vowels (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 12), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 93-94
- ^ Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)[2], Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 12
- ^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 61: “OP *θigra- > LMP sīr (< EMP *sigr) ‘garlic’”
- ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2017) “Agricultural terms in Indo-Iranian”, in Language Dispersal Beyond Farming[3], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 285-286
- ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (1929) “sīr²”, in Parachi and Ormuri (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume I, Oslo: Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning; H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), page 288
- ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) “sīr”, in Iranian Pamir Languages (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning; H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), page 411
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “śígru-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen[4] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 635