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Prasuni
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰarmyám (“building, permanent house”), although *zimi would be expected. A more likely preform would be *čiman- or its oblique *čimn-a-.
Likely related to ižinik (“thread”) (< *ā-čina-ka-, root *či-) in the original sense of "cloth".
Pronunciation
Noun
žima (Dewa)
- tent
References
- Julian Kreidl (2024) Prasun historical linguistics: new etymologies and the fate of the Indo-Iranian morphemes *-am and *-ka-, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2024), p. 10
Upper Sorbian
Verb
žima
- third-person singular present of žimać