Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/Hušā́s

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 *h₂éwsōs.

Proper noun

*Hušā́s f

1. dawn
2. Ushas, goddess of dawn

Declension

consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*Hušā́s	*Hušā́sā́w	*Hušā́sás
vocative	*Hušā́s	*Hušā́sā́w	*Hušā́sás
accusative	*Hušā́sám	*Hušā́sā́w	*Hušā́sás
instrumental	*Hušā́sáH	*Hušā́sbʰyáH, -bʰyā́m	*Hušā́sbʰíš
ablative	*Hušā́sás	*Hušā́sbʰyáH, -bʰyā́m	*Hušā́sbʰyáH
dative	*Hušā́sáy	*Hušā́sbʰyáH, -bʰyā́m	*Hušā́sbʰyáH
genitive	*Hušā́sás	*Hušā́sáwš	*Hušā́sām
locative	*Hušā́sí	*Hušā́sáwš	*Hušā́ssu

Descendants

• Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Huṣā́s
  • Sanskrit: उषस् (uṣás), उषास् (uṣā́s, nom.sg.) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Iranian: *Hušā́h
  • Central Iranian:
    • Old Avestan: 𐬎𐬱𐬀𐬵 (ušah), 𐬎𐬱𐬃 (ušā̊, “morning light, dawn”, nom.sg.)
      • Younger Avestan: 𐬎𐬱𐬄𐬨 (ušąm), 𐬎𐬱𐬂𐬢𐬵𐬆𐬨 (ušåŋhəm, acc.sg.)
  • Northeastern Iranian:
    • Sogdian: [script needed] ('wš)
  • Northwestern Iranian:
    • Parthian: 𐫀𐫇𐫢𐫏𐫁𐫀𐫖 (ʾwšybʾm /⁠ōšebām⁠/)
    • Kurdish:
      • >? Central Kurdish: ئاسۆ (aso, “horizon; dawn; darkness, dark figure; light”)
      • >? Northern Kurdish: aso (“horizon”)
  • Southwestern Iranian:
    • Old Persian: [script needed] (*ušām)
      • Middle Persian:

        Manichaean: 𐫀𐫇𐫢𐫏𐫁𐫀𐫖 (ʾwšybʾm /⁠ōšebām⁠/)

        Pahlavi: [script needed] (ʾwš /⁠ōš⁠/), [script needed] (ʾwšbʾm /⁠ōšbām⁠/)

        • Persian: هوشبام (hušbâm, “the Yazata of dawn in Zoroastrianism”)