Reconstruction:Old Persian/šarguš

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 This Old Persian 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.

Old Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *cárguš.

Noun

*šarguš[1][2][3]

  1. lion

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Early Middle Persian: (/⁠šagr⁠/)
    Manichaean script: 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr)
    Book Pahlavi script: (šgr)
    • Late Middle Persian:
      Book Pahlavi script: (šyr /⁠šēr⁠/)
      • Classical Persian: شیر (šêr)
        • Dari: شیر (šêr)
        • Iranian Persian: شیر (šîr)
        • Tajik: шер (šer)
        • → Baluchi: شیر (šēr)
        • → Hindustani:
        • → Pashto: شېر (šēr)
        • → Turkic: /šēr ~ šīr/
          • → Ottoman Turkish: شیر (şîr)
          • → Turkmen: şir (šīr)
          • → Uzbek: sher (šēr) (via Tajiki dialect)
      • →? Old Chinese: 師 (OC *sri, “lion”)

References

  1. ^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 60: “OP *sargu- > EMP šagr, LMP sēr ‘lion’”
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 229
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