Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/ukšā́

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 *uksḗn.

Noun

*ukšā́ m

1. bull

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Proto-Indo-Aryan: *(H)ukṣā́
  • Sanskrit: उक्षन् (ukṣán, “bull; ox”) (nom. sg. उक्षा (ukṣā́))
    • Pali: ukkhā
• Proto-Iranian: *(H)uxšā́
  • Avestan: 𐬎𐬑𐬱𐬁𐬥 (uxšān, “bull”)
  • Old Median: *uxšā
    • ⇒ Old Median: *Uxšapā (“protector of bulls”) (personal name)
      • → Aramaic: [script needed] (whšp)
• →? Proto-Uralic: *uškɜ (“ox, bull”) (see there for further descendants)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Iranian:
    • Old Mazanderani: حشو (hašu, “a two-year-old water buffalo”)