Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/páću

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 *péḱu.

Noun

*páću n

livestock, animal

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *páśu
- Sanskrit: पशु (páśu, paśú, “livestock”)^[1] (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *pácu^[2]^[3] (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Finno-Permic: *počaw (“reindeer”) (see there for further descendants)
→ Ob-Ugric:
- Mansi: *pääčəɣ
  - Northern Mansi: пасиг (pasig, “reindeer calf”)
- Khanty: *peečəɣ
  - Eastern Khanty: печәг (pječəg, “one-year-old reindeer”)
  - Northern Khanty: пеши (pješi)

References

^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “paśú”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
^ Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 500–501
^ Čong (Cheung), Dž. (2009) T. K. Salbijeva, transl., Očerki istoričeskovo razvitija osetinskovo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism] (in Russian), Vladikavkaz: Izdatelʹsko-poligrafičeskoje predprijatije im. V. Gassijeva, →ISBN, page 268

[1] Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “paśú”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

[2] Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 500–501

[3] Čong (Cheung), Dž. (2009) T. K. Salbijeva, transl., Očerki istoričeskovo razvitija osetinskovo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism] (in Russian), Vladikavkaz: Izdatelʹsko-poligrafičeskoje predprijatije im. V. Gassijeva, →ISBN, page 268

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