Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/cyaHwáh

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This Proto-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-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćyaHwás.

Adjective

*cyaHwáh[1][2]

  1. black-brown, dark brown, dark

Descendants

  • Central Iranian:
    • Younger Avestan: 𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀 (siiāuua)
  • Northeastern Iranian:
    • Proto-Scythian:
    • Sogdo-Bactrian:
      • Khwarezmian: (sʾw /⁠sāw⁠/)
      • Proto-Sogdic:
        • Sogdian: (šʾw), (šw /⁠šāw⁠/)
        • Yagnobi: šōw
  • Southeastern Iranian:
    • Ishkashimi: (ṣ̌u), (su)
  • Northwestern Iranian:
    • Proto-Medo-Parthian: *siyāwə́h
      • Parthian:
        Manichaean script: 𐫘𐫏𐫀𐫇 (syʾw /⁠syāw⁠/)
        • Old Armenian: սեաւ (seaw) (see there for further descendants)
        • Middle Persian:
          Manichaean script: 𐫘𐫏𐫀𐫇 (syʾw /⁠syāw⁠/)
          Book Pahlavi script: (sydʾ /⁠syā⁠/)
          • Classical Persian: سیاه (siyāh)
            Hazaragi: (siyā), (siyō)
            Iranian Persian: سیاه (siyâh)
            Tajik: сиёҳ (siyoh)
      • Proto-Zaza-Gorani:
  • Southwestern Iranian:

References

  1. ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
  2. ^ Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation), Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 204
  3. ^ Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation), Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 14