Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/sasás

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 *sh₁es-ó-s, from *seh₁- (“to sow”).

Noun

*sasás m[1]

corn, herb, grass

Declension

masculine a-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sasás	*sasā́	*sasā́, -ā́s(as)
vocative	*sasa	*sasā́	*sasā́, -ā́s(as)
accusative	*sasám	*sasā́	*sasā́ns
instrumental	*sasā́	*sasáybʰyaH, -ā́bʰyām	*sasā́yš
ablative	*sasā́t	*sasáybʰyaH, -ā́bʰyām	*sasáybʰyas
dative	*sasā́y	*sasáybʰyaH, -ā́bʰyām	*sasáybʰyas
genitive	*sasásya	*sasáyās	*sasā́na(H)m
locative	*sasáy	*sasáyaw	*sasáyšu

Derived terms

*sasyás (“crop, grain, fruit”)
- Indo-Aryan: *sasyás[2]
  - Sanskrit: सस्य (sasyá)
- Iranian: *hahyáh[2]
  - Younger Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬌𐬀‎ (hahiia)
    - ⇒ Younger Avestan: 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌𐬱⸱𐬵𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬌𐬀‎ (paitiš hahiia, “harvest festival”)
  - Middle Persian:
    Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾḤ /hah/, “pertaining to grain, harvest”)

Descendants

Indo-Aryan: *sasás
- Sanskrit: सस (sasá)
  - Magadhi Prakrit:
    - Assamese: সাহ (xah, “crops”)
    - Oriya: ସସ (sôsô, “kernel”)

References

Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “sasá”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2000–), “*haha-, *hahi̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 320-321

[1] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “sasá”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University

[ESIJa-2] Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2000–), “*haha-, *hahi̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 320-321