Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/kawfáh

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Proto-Iranian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kawpʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *kowpéh₂-s ~ *kowph₂-és, from *kowp-éh₂ (“hump”), from *kew-p-, from *kew- (“bend”).[1] Cognate with Kamkata-viri kū, Prasuni kū (“hump”).

Noun

*kawfáh[1][2]

  1. mountain

Descendants

  • Central Iranian:
    • Younger Avestan: 𐬐𐬀𐬊𐬟𐬀 (kaofa)
  • Northeastern Iranian:
    • Ossetian:
      Digor Ossetian: хонх (xonx)
      Iron Ossetian: хох (xox)
    • Yagnobi: (kʉʰ)
  • Southeastern Iranian:
    • Ormuri: (kọ̄)
    • Proto-Shughni-Yazghulami-Munji:
      • Munji: (kifa)
      • Proto-Shughni-Yazghulami:
        • Shughni: (kū)
        • Vanji: (kub)
  • Northwestern Iranian:
    • Baluchi: (kōpag)
    • Kurdish:
      Central Kurdish: کێو (kêw)
      Northern Kurdish: kov-, kûv- (in kovî, kûvî (“wild”))
      Southern Kurdish: کۊە (küe)
      Laki: کۊی (küy)
    • Proto-Medo-Parthian:
      • Parthian: (qwp), (kwp), (qwf), (kwf /⁠kōf⁠/)
      • Zazaki: ko (kō)
  • Southwestern Iranian:
  • → Old Armenian: -կոհ (-koh) in Կապկոհ (Kapkoh, “Caucasus”)
  • → Äynu: (kox)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)‎, Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 22
  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
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