Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/ȷ́ʰŕ̥dayam

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Proto-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr, or its oblique stem *ḱr̥d-. The initial voiced aspirate is left unexplained.

Noun

*ȷ́ʰŕ̥dayam n^[1]

heart

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *źʰŕ̥dayam
- Sanskrit: हृदय (hṛ́daya), हृद् (hṛ́d) (in the weak cases) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *jŕ̥dayam (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Nuristani: *jr̥dí (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “hŕ̥d”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 230: “j́ʰrdaia-”

[1] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “hŕ̥d”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 230: “j́ʰrdaia-”

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