Reconstruction:Old Persian/vrinjiš

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 *wrinǰiš^[1] (compare Sogdian ܒܪܝܢܢܨ (βrync /⁠βrinč⁠/), Mazanderani وینج (vinj)), unexplained nasalized variant of *wriHǰíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wriHǰʰíš, whence Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhí, “rice”). Further cognate with Sogdian 𐽀𐼷𐼼𐼸 (rysk /⁠rise⁠/), Pashto وريژې pl (wriže), Khotanese (rrīysu), Yagnobi rēžōna, Zazaki riz, Northern Kurdish riz, Ormuri (rēzan), Talysh (berz), Gilaki (bəj), Kermanic beray. Possibly related to Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”).

Noun

*vrinjiš^[2]

rice

Alternative reconstructions

*vrīziš^[3]

Descendants

Middle Persian: blnc (/⁠brinǰ⁠/)
Manichaean script: 𐫁𐫡𐫏𐫗𐫉 (brynz /⁠brinz⁠/), 𐫃𐫇𐫡𐫏𐫗𐫝 (gwrync /⁠gurinǰ⁠/)
Book Pahlavi script: (brnc /⁠brinǰ⁠/)
- Classical Persian: برنج (birinj), (rare, archaic) گرنج (gurinj, guranj)
  - Dari: برنج (birinj)
  - Iranian Persian: برنج (berenj)
  - Tajik: биринҷ (birinj)
  - → Baluchi: برنج (byrynj)
  - → Kazakh: күріш (kürış)
  - → Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: بِرِنج (birinc)
    Northern Kurdish: birinc
  - → Ottoman Turkish: برنج (birinǰ), پرنج (pirinç) (see there for further descendants)
  - → Uyghur: گۈرۈچ (gürüch)
  - → Zazaki: birinc
- → Old Armenian: բրինձ (brinj) (see there for further descendants)
- → Georgian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi) (see there for further descendants)
- → Classical Syriac: ܒܪܢܓ (brng)
→ Elamite: 𒈪𒊑𒍢𒆜 (mi-ri-zí-iš /⁠miriziš⁠/), 𒊒𒈪𒍢𒆜 (rumiziš)

References

^ Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)‎, Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 32: “PIr *u̯rī̆nǰi-”
^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 69: “OP *vrinji-”
^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “457”, in 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, page *Vrīziš: “*Vrīziš”

[1] Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)‎, Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 32: “PIr *u̯rī̆nǰi-”

[2] Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 69: “OP *vrinji-”

[Tavernier-3] Tavernier, Jan (2007) “457”, in 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, page *Vrīziš: “*Vrīziš”

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