Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/pāpás

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

Adjective

*pāpás

bad

Descendants

Indo-Aryan: *pāpás
- Sanskrit: पाप (pāpá)
  - Hindi: पाप (pāp)
  - Bengali: পাপ (pap)
  - Gujarati: પાપ (pāp)
  - Urdu: پاپ‎ (pāp)
  - → Kannada: ಪಾಪ (pāpa)
  - → Khmer: បាប (baap)
  - → Lao: ບາບ (bāp)
  - → Malayalam: പാപം (pāpaṃ)
  - → Telugu: పాపము (pāpamu)
  - → Thai: บาป (baap)
Iranian: *pāpáh
- Avestan: 𐬞𐬁𐬞𐬀-‎ (pāpa-) (late Avestan)

References

Alexander Lubotsky, "The Indo-Iranian substratum" in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European, ed. Carpelan et al., Helsinki (2001).