Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/ćyaHmás

This Proto-Indo-Iranian 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.

Proto-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱyeh₁-mó-s (“black, dark”), vṛddhi-derivation^[1] of *ḱih₃-mó-s, from *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness, shadow”).

Adjective

*ćyaHmás^[2]^[3]

black
Synonyms: *ćyaHitás, *ćyaHwás

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ćyaHmás
- Sanskrit: श्याम (śyāmá)
Proto-Iranian: *cyaHmáh
- Avestan: 𐬯𐬁𐬨𐬀 (sāma, “black”)
- ⇒ Persian: سام (sâm, “fire”) (substantivized)

References

^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 105, 110
^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “śyāmá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2015) “Suppletive Phenomena in Older Indo-Iranian Noun Inflection”, in Diachrony and Suppletion‎^[1]

[Zair-1] Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 105, 110

[2] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “śyāmá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University

[3] Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2015) “Suppletive Phenomena in Older Indo-Iranian Noun Inflection”, in Diachrony and Suppletion‎^[1]

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