Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/bʰāgás

This Proto-Indo-Iranian entry contains reconstructed words 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-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-ó-s, from *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”) +‎ *-ós.

Noun

*bʰāgás m

division
allotment

Declension

masculine a-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bʰāgas	*bʰāgā	*bʰāgā, -ās(as)
vocative	*bʰāga	*bʰāgā	*bʰāgā, -ās(as)
accusative	*bʰāgam	*bʰāgā	*bʰāgāns
instrumental	*bʰāgā	*bʰāgaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*bʰāgāyš
ablative	*bʰāgāt	*bʰāgaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*bʰāgaybʰyas
dative	*bʰāgāy	*bʰāgaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām	*bʰāgaybʰyas
genitive	*bʰāgasya	*bʰāgayās	*bʰāgāna(H)m
locative	*bʰāgay	*bʰāgayaw	*bʰāgayšu

Related terms

*bʰagás
*bʰakšás
*bʰakšáyati
*bʰaktás
*bʰaktíš
*bʰaHǰáyati
*bʰáǰati

Descendants

Indo-Aryan: *bʰāgás
- Sanskrit: भाग (bhāgá) (see there for further descendants)
Iranian: *bāgáh (“part; garden”)[1][2]
- Avestan: 𐬠𐬁𐬔𐬀‎ (bāga, “part”)
- Baluchi: باگ‎ (bág)
- Mazanderani: [script needed] (bāq)
- Old Persian: *bāgaʰ
  - Middle Persian:
    Manichaean: 𐫁𐫀𐫇‎ (bʾw /bāw/)
    Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (bāɣ)
    - Persian: باغ‎ (bâğ) (see there for further descendants)
    - → Classical Syriac: ܒܓܐ‎ (bāḡā, “garden”)
    - → Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡀࡂࡀ‎ (baga, “garden”)
  - → Aramaic:
    Imperial Aramaic: 𐡁𐡂‎ (bg, “agricultural domain, fief”)
    Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: באגא‎ (“outskirts of a town”)
- Sogdian: (/βāɣ/)
  Manichaean: 𐫁𐫀𐫄‎ (bʾɣ)
  Syriac: [Syriac needed] (βʾɣ)

References

Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 51
Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎, Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 80: “*bágas”

[1] Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 51

[2] Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎, Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 80: “*bágas”