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Baluchi
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *gáwšah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰáwšas. Cognate with Persian گوش (gôš).
Noun
گوش • (goš)
- ear
Persian
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭱 (gʿš /gōš/), from Old Persian 𐎥𐎢𐏁 (g-u-š /gauša/, “ear”), from Proto-Iranian *gáwšah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰáwšas, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰows- (“hear”).
Indo-Iranian cognates include: Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 (gaoša), Baluchi گوش (goš), Northern Kurdish guh, Ossetian хъус (qus) / гъос (ǧos), Sanskrit घोष (ghoṣa). Also compare Old Armenian գոյշ (goyš), an Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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gōš
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| Dari reading?
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gōš
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| Iranian reading?
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guš
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| Tajik reading?
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güš
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Noun
| Dari
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گوش
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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гӯш
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گوش • (guš) (plural گوشها (guš-hâ))
- ear
Descendants
References
- Abajev, V. I. (1973) “qūs | ġos”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 316, 317
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գոյշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 578b
- Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2010) “Indo-Iranian I: Indic”, in Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, 2nd edition, page 203
- Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 250
