Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/bʰāgás

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 *bʰeh₂g-ó-s, from *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”) +‎ *-ós.

Noun

*bʰāgás m

Declension

masculine a-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bʰāgas	*bʰāgā	*bʰāgā, -ās(as)
vocative	*bʰāga	*bʰāgā	*bʰāgā, -ās(as)
accusative	*bʰāgam	*bʰāgā	*bʰāgāns
instrumental	*bʰāgā	*bʰāgaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*bʰāgāyš
ablative	*bʰāgāt	*bʰāgaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*bʰāgaybʰyas
dative	*bʰāgāy	*bʰāgaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*bʰāgaybʰyas
genitive	*bʰāgasya	*bʰāgayās	*bʰāgāna(H)m
locative	*bʰāgay	*bʰāgayaw	*bʰāgayšu

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *bʰāgás
- Sanskrit: भाग (bhāgá) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *bāgáh (“part; garden”)^[1]^[2]
- Avestan: 𐬠𐬁𐬔𐬀 (bāga, “part”)
- Baluchi: باگ (bág)
- Mazanderani: (bāq)
- Old Persian: *bāgah
  - Middle Persian:
    - Manichaean script: 𐫁𐫀𐫇 (bʾw /⁠bāw⁠/)
    - Book Pahlavi script: (bʾg /⁠bāɣ⁠/)
    - > Persian: باغ (bâğ) (inherited) (see there for further descendants)
    - → Classical Syriac: ܒܓܐ (bāḡā, “garden”)
    - → Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡀࡂࡀ (baga, “garden”)
  - → Aramaic:
    Imperial Aramaic: 𐡁𐡂 (bg, “agricultural domain, fief”)
    Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: באגא (“outskirts of a town”)
- Sogdian: (/⁠βāɣ⁠/)
  - Manichaean script: 𐫁𐫀𐫄 (bʾɣ)
  - Syriac script: (βʾɣ)

References

^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 51
^ Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎, Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 80: “*bágas”

[1] Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 51

[2] Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎, Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 80: “*bágas”

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