Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/warāȷ́ʰás

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

Possibly borrowed from the BMAC substrate.^[1]

Noun

*warāȷ́ʰás m

boar

Declension

masculine a-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*warāȷ́ʰas	*warāȷ́ʰā	*warāȷ́ʰā, -ās(as)
vocative	*warāȷ́ʰa	*warāȷ́ʰā	*warāȷ́ʰā, -ās(as)
accusative	*warāȷ́ʰam	*warāȷ́ʰā	*warāȷ́ʰāns
instrumental	*warāȷ́ʰā	*warāȷ́ʰaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*warāȷ́ʰāyš
ablative	*warāȷ́ʰāt	*warāȷ́ʰaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*warāȷ́ʰaybʰyas
dative	*warāȷ́ʰāy	*warāȷ́ʰaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*warāȷ́ʰaybʰyas
genitive	*warāȷ́ʰasya	*warāȷ́ʰayās	*warāȷ́ʰāna(H)m
locative	*warāȷ́ʰay	*warāȷ́ʰayaw	*warāȷ́ʰayšu

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *warāźʰás
- Sanskrit: वराह (varāhá) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *warājáh (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Uralic: *woraća
- Proto-Finnic: *oraca
- Moksha: урось (uroś)

References

^ Lubotsky, Alexander (1999) “The Indo-Iranian substratum”, in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations‎, Helsinki

[1] Lubotsky, Alexander (1999) “The Indo-Iranian substratum”, in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations‎, Helsinki

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