Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/gawštaH

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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

Suggested to be from *gā́wš ~ *gáws (“cow”) + unknown suffix *-štaH,[1] but perhaps instead inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gawštaH, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷews-teh₂, from *gʷṓws ~ *gʷéws (“cow”) +‎ *-teh₂.

Noun

*gawštaH f[2][1]

  1. meat, flesh

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

  • Northeastern Iranian:
    • Proto-Scythian: *gūštā
  • Southeastern Iranian:
  • Northwestern Iranian:
  • Southwestern Iranian:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 212
  2. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 944, page 95
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Morgenstierne, Georg (1927) “γw'ax̌a”, in An Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Skrifter utgitt av det Norske Videnskapsakademi i Oslo; 3), Oslo: J. Dybwad, § 49, page 29: “*gauštrā-”
  4. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1967) Prolexis to the Book of Zambasta (Indo-Scythian Studies Being Khotanese Texts; 6), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 75
  5. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) “ggūśta”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 89: “*gau-šti-”
  6. ^ Gershevitch, Ilya (1976) “More meat in Iranian”, in Morpurgo Davies Anna, Meid Wolfgang, editors, Studies in Greek, Italic, and Indo-European Linguistics Offered to Leonard R. Palmer On the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday June 5, 1976 (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 16), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, page 64 of 63–64

Further reading

  • Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Iranian Pamir Languages (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi) (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 213b
  • Szemerényi, Oswald (1991) Scripta minora. Selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin․ Vol. 4 Indo-European Languages Other than Latin and Greek, Innsbruck, page 2025
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