Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/ráwčah

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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 *ráwčas.

    Noun

    *ráwčah n[1][2][3][4][5]

    1. light
    2. day

    Derived terms

    • *ráwčikah (“of day, daily; sustenance, daily bread”)
    • *ráwčakah (“of day; fasting”)
    • *ráwčākah (“lightning; morning star”)
      • Northwestern Iranian:
        • Mazanderani: روجا (rūjā, “Venus”)
        • Gilaki: روجا (rujā, “morning star, Venus”)
      • Southwestern Iranian:
        • Middle Persian: (/⁠rōzāg⁠/, “lightning”)
          Middle Persian: (lwcʼk')

    Descendants

    References

    1. ^ Efimov, Valentin Aleksandrovič (2011) The Ormuri Language in Past and Present (FLI Language and Culture Series)‎, volume 6, Islamabad: Forum for Language Initiatives, page 6
    2. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2011) Selected Pashto Problems II. Historical Phonology 1: On Vocalism and Etyma (Iran and the Caucasus)‎, volume 15, numbers 1-2, Brill Academic Publishers, page 184
    3. ^ Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)‎, Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 71
    4. ^ Rüdiger, Schmitt (2000) Die iranischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart [The Iranian Languages Past and Present] (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 104
    5. ^ Cantera, Alberto (2017) “The phonology of Iranian”, in Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, volume 1, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, VI. Iranian, page 3
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