Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/kunčit
Appearance
Proto-Iranian
[edit]Reconstruction
[edit]Attested only in Middle Iranian.
Etymology
[edit]Presumably related to or borrowed from Sanskrit कुञ्चिका (kuñcikā, “fennel flower seed”).
Noun
[edit]*kunčit
Descendants
[edit]- Northeastern Iranian:
- Southeastern Iranian:
- Northwestern Iranian:
- Baluchi: کنچیث (kunčīθ)
- Kurdish:
- Proto-Medo-Parthian:
- Southwestern Iranian:
- Middle Persian: (/kunǰīd/)
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ŠMg), [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwncyt)
- Pazend script: 𐬐𐬎𐬥𐬘𐬌𐬛 (kunjid)
- Classical Persian: کنجد (kunǰid), کنجید (kunǰīd)
- → Old Armenian: կնճիթ (knčitʻ), կնջիթ (knǰitʻ), կնջիւթ (knǰiwtʻ), կնճութ (knčutʻ), կնճիթն (knčitʻn), կանճուտ (kančut), կաճուտ (kačut)
- → Common Turkic: *künčit
- Middle Persian: (/kunǰīd/)
Further reading
[edit]- Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 95
- Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, page 288
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 727-728