Reconstruction:Proto-Scythian/kanafā
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This Proto-Scythian 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-Scythian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Sogdian 𐼋𐼊𐼎𐼔𐼁 (kynpʾ /kinapa, kimba/, “hemp, flax”), Middle Persian [script needed] (kʾnb /kanaβ, kānaβ/), possibly from Proto-Iranian *kanafš ~ *kanabas, *kanapas, perhaps ultimately borrowed from Semitic, compare Classical Syriac ܩܢܦܐ (qnpʾ, “hemp”), Akkadian 𒋆𒄣𒌦𒈾𒁍 (qunnabu, qunappu, qun(u)bu, “hemp”).[1][2][3][4]
Noun
[edit]*kanafā f
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Sarmatian: *kanfā
- Proto-Saka-Wakhi: *kampʰā[3]
- Proto-Saka: *kaṃpʰā
- Khotanese: [script needed] (kaṃhā)
- Wakhi: kəm
- Proto-Saka: *kaṃpʰā
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thordarson, Fridrik (2009) Ossetic Grammatical Studies (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte; 788), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 62
- ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) “*kanab/p-, *kan/mp-, *kan/mp-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 218–220
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bailey, H. W. (1979) “kaṃha-”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 51-52;*kanfa-
- ^ Gharib, B. (1995) “kynpʾ”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 203