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Middle Persian
Etymology
Compare Old Armenian շնորհ (šnorh), an Iranian borrowing.
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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Does this trace back to Indo-European? It kind of looks like it could be a compound formation of *h₂eys- (“to wish, request, ask”) + *h₂nḗr (“vital energy; man”) - though the term doesn't seem to be mentioned in etymological dictionaries.”
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Noun
šnwhl • (/šnōhr/)
- gratitude, contentment
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “šnohr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 80