Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/cáčati

This Proto-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.

This Proto-Iranian entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćáčati, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱék-e-ti, from *ḱek- (“to be able, capable”) +‎ *-eti.

Verb

*cáčati

to be prepared, fit, ready

Related terms

*cāčáyati

Descendants

Northeastern Iranian:
- Bactrian: σαχσ- (sakhs-, “to be assessed”) (< *saxsa-^[1])
- Ossetian: (“to get stuck in”)
  Digor Ossetian: сӕдзун (sæʒun)
  
  Iron Ossetian: сӕдзын (sæʒyn)
Northwestern Iranian:
- Parthian: (“to be prepared, fitting, ready”)
  Manichaean script: 𐫘𐫝𐫏𐫅 (scyd /⁠sajēd⁠/)
Southwestern Iranian:
- Middle Persian: (/⁠sazēd⁠/, “to be fitting, becoming, necessary”)
  Manichaean script: 𐫘𐫉𐫏𐫅 (szyd)
  
  Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (scyt)
  - Classical Persian: سزد (sazad, “it is fitting”)

References

^ Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan (Studies in the Khalili Collection III, Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum II), Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, page 223

Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*sač¹”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323

[1] Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan (Studies in the Khalili Collection III, Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum II), Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, page 223

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