Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/páću

This Proto-Indo-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-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *péḱu.

Noun

*páću n

livestock, animal

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *páśu
- Sanskrit: पशु (páśu, paśú, “livestock”)[1] (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *pácu[2][3] (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Uralic: *počaw (see there for further descendants)
→ Ob-Ugric:
- Mansi: *pääčəɣ
  - Northern: пасиг (pasig, “reindeer calf”)
- Khanty: *peečəɣ
  - Eastern: печәг (pečəg, “one-year-old reindeer”)
  - Northern: пеши (peši)

References

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “paśú”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Абаев, В. И. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow, Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 500–501
Čong (Cheung), Dž. (2009), T. K. Salbijeva, transl., Očerki istoričeskovo razvitija osetinskovo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism] (in Russian), Vladikavkaz: Izdatelʹsko-poligrafičeskoje predprijatije im. V. Gassijeva, →ISBN, page 268

[1] Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “paśú”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

[2] Абаев, В. И. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow, Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 500–501

[3] Čong (Cheung), Dž. (2009), T. K. Salbijeva, transl., Očerki istoričeskovo razvitija osetinskovo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism] (in Russian), Vladikavkaz: Izdatelʹsko-poligrafičeskoje predprijatije im. V. Gassijeva, →ISBN, page 268