Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/kapáwtas

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.

Likely borrowed from a Central Asiatic language.^[1]

*kapáwtas

1. grey-blue

*kapáwtas m

1. pigeon, dove

• *kapawtakás (“blue-grey”)
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *kapawtakás
    • Sanskrit: कपोतक (kapotaká, “pigeon colored, lead-grey”)
      • Gandhari: 𐨐𐨬𐨆𐨡𐨒 (kavodaga)
  • Proto-Iranian: *kapawtakáh
    • Old Persian: 𐎣𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎣 (k-p-u-t-k /⁠kapautaka⁠/)
    • → Old Armenian: կապուտակ (kaputak, “sky-blue”)

• Proto-Indo-Aryan: *kapáwtas
  • Sanskrit: कपोत (kapóta, “pigeon, dove”) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Iranian: *kapáwtah (“blue; pigeon”)
  • Khotanese: 𑀓𑀯𑀽𑀢 (kavūta)
  • Sogdian: (kpʾwt /⁠kapōt⁠/, “blue, blue-grey”)
  • Baluchi: کپوت (kapōt, “pigeon”)
  • Kurdish:

    Northern Kurdish: kevok (“pigeon”)

    Central Kurdish: کەوو (kewu), کەوگ (kewg, “blue”)

    Southern Kurdish: کەو (kew, “blue”)

    Laki: کاو (kaw, “blue”)

  • Zaza-Gurani:
    • Gurani: کەۋە (kaʋa), کەۋێ (kaʋɛ, “blue”)
    • Zazaki: kewe (“blue”)
  • Talysh: кафте (kafte)
  • Old Persian: *kapautah (“pigeon; blue-grey”)
    • Middle Persian: (kpwt' /⁠kabōt⁠/)
      • Persian: کبود (kabôd)
      • ⇒ Middle Persian: (/⁠kabōtar⁠/, “pigeon”)
        • Manichaean script: 𐫐𐫁𐫇𐫤𐫡 (kbwtr)
        • Book Pahlavi script: (kpwtl)
          • Persian: کبوتر (kabutar) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Armenian: կապոյտ (kapoyt)