Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/Hargʰás

This Proto-Indo-Iranian 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.

Proto-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂elgʷʰ-ós, from *h₂elgʷʰ- (“to have value, to be worth”).

Noun

*Hargʰás m

price, worth, value

Declension

masculine a-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*Hargʰás	*Hargʰā́(w)	*Hargʰā́s(as)
vocative	*Hárgʰa	*Hárgʰā(w)	*Hárgʰās(as)
accusative	*Hargʰám	*Hargʰā́(w)	*Hargʰā́ns
instrumental	*HargʰáH	*Hargʰáybʰyā(m)	*Hargʰā́yš
ablative	*Hargʰā́t	*Hargʰáybʰyā(m)	*Hargʰáybʰyas
dative	*Hargʰā́y	*Hargʰáybʰyā(m)	*Hargʰáybʰyas
genitive	*Hargʰásya	*Hargʰáyās	*Hargʰā́naHam
locative	*Hargʰáy	*Hargʰáyaw	*Hargʰáyšu

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Hargʰás
- Sanskrit: अर्घ (arghá) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *Hargáh
- Classical Persian: ارز (arz)
- Sogdian: (ʾrg)
- Ossetian: аргъ (arǧ, “price”)
- → Old Armenian: *արգ (*arg), յարգ (yarg)
- → Proto-Finnic: *arvo (“worth, value”) (see there for further descendants)
- → Hungarian: ár (“price”) (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “arghá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University

[1] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “arghá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University