Reconstruction:Proto-Scythian/kanafā

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Proto-Scythian

Etymology

Cognate with Sogdian 𐼋𐼊𐼎𐼔𐼁 (kynpʾ /⁠kinapa, kimba⁠/, “hemp, flax”), Middle Persian (kʾnb /⁠kanaβ, kānaβ⁠/), possibly from Proto-Iranian *kanafš ~ *kanabas, *kanapas, perhaps ultimately borrowed from Semitic, compare Classical Syriac ܩܢܦܐ (qnpʾ, “hemp”), Akkadian 𒋆𒄣𒌦𒈾𒁍 (qunnabu, qunappu, qun(u)bu, “hemp”).[1][2][3][4]

Noun

*kanafā f

  1. hemp

Descendants

  • Proto-Sarmatian: *kanfā
  • Proto-Saka-Wakhi: *kampʰā[3]
    • Proto-Saka: *kaṃpʰā
      • Khotanese: (kaṃhā)
    • Wakhi: kəm

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thordarson, Fridrik (2009) Ossetic Grammatical Studies (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte; 788), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 62
  2. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) “*kanab/p-, *kan/mp-, *kan/mp-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 218–220
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bailey, H. W. (1979) “kaṃha-”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 51-52;*kanfa-
  4. ^ Gharib, B. (1995) “kynpʾ”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 203
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