Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/sáwHmas

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 *sówh₁-mo-s, from *sewh₁- (“to pour out, rain, to press out, extract”).

Noun

*sáwHmas m^[1]

soma, haoma

Declension

masculine a-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sáwHmas	*sáwHmā	*sáwHmā, -ās(as)
vocative	*sáwHma	*sáwHmā	*sáwHmā, -ās(as)
accusative	*sáwHmam	*sáwHmā	*sáwHmāns
instrumental	*sáwHmā	*sáwHmaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*sáwHmāyš
ablative	*sáwHmāt	*sáwHmaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*sáwHmaybʰyas
dative	*sáwHmāy	*sáwHmaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*sáwHmaybʰyas
genitive	*sáwHmasya	*sáwHmayās	*sáwHmāna(H)m
locative	*sáwHmay	*sáwHmayaw	*sáwHmayšu

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *sáwHmas
- Sanskrit: सोम (sóma)
Proto-Iranian: *háwHmah (see there for further descendants)

References

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

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

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