Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/tápas

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Proto-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tép-os ~ *tép-es-os.

Noun

*tápas n[1]

  1. heat

Descendants

  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *tápas
  • Proto-Iranian: *tápah[1]
    • Middle Persian:
      Book Pahlavi: tp (tab, “fever”)
    • → Old Armenian: տապ (tap, “heat”)
      • → Armenian: տապ (tap) (learned)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “tápas-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
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