< Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian
Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/priHás
Proto-Indo-Iranian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *priHós.
Adjective
*priHás[1]
- dear, beloved
Descendants
- Indo-Aryan: *priHás
- Sanskrit: प्रिय (priyá) (see there for further descendants)
- Iranian: *friHáh
- Avestan: 𐬟𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (friia, “dear, beloved, friend, well-wisher”)
- Khotanese: [script needed] (briya-, “beloved, dear, treasured”)
- Parthian: [script needed] (fryẖ, “dear, beloved”)
- Middle Persian: [script needed] (’fryẖ), [script needed] (’p̄ryẖ), [script needed] (’p̄ryy, “to create, to bless”)
- Persian: فری (fari, “dear, beloved, pleasing”) (archaic)
- Sogdian: [script needed] (pry-) (Buddhist), [script needed] (fry-, “dear”) (Christian, Manichaean)
References
- Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) , “priyá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University