Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/waȷ́ʰ-

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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/waȷ́ʰ-

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 *weǵʰ-. Compare Latin vehō (“I carry, bear”).

Root

*waȷ́ʰ-

1. bear, carry
2. drive

Descendants

• Indo-Aryan: *waźʰ-
  • Sanskrit: वह् (vah, “to bear, carry”)
    • Magadhi Prakrit: [Term?]
      • Assamese: ব (bo)
• Iranian: *waĵ- (“to carry; to drive (a chariot or similar)”)
  • Avestan: 𐬬𐬀𐬰‎ (vaz-, “to move, to run”)
  • Baluchi: [script needed] (gwast / gwaz-, “to pass”)
  • Khunsari: [script needed] (vuza / vuz-, “to run, to run away”)
  • Kurdish:

    Northern Kurdish: bezîn (“to run”), bazdan (“to flee, to escape, to run away”)

  • Middle Persian:

    Book Pahlavi: wc- (waz-, “to move [intransitive]; to blow (of wind)”)

    Manichaean: wy- (“to move along”)

    • Persian: وزیدن‎ (vazidan) / وز‎ (vaz), بزیدن‎ (bazidan) / بز‎ (baz-, “to blow”) / (*para-) پرواز‎ (parvāz-, “to fly”)[1]
  • Parthian:

    Manichaean: wz- (waz-, “to move swiftly, fly; to travel; to blow (of wind)”)

  • Zazaki: veştene (“to run”), vazdayen (“to run, to flee, to escape”)
  • → Old Armenian: վազ (vaz, “leap, jump; running”)
  • → Old Armenian: աւազակ (awazak) (possibly)

Derived terms

• *wáȷ́ʰati
  • Indo-Aryan: *wáźʰati
    • Sanskrit: वहति (váhati)
• *wā́ĵʰanam
  • Indo-Aryan: *wā́źʰanam
    • Sanskrit: वाहन (vā́hana)

1. Cheung, Johnny. 2007. Etymological dictionary of the Iranian verb. Leiden: Brill. p.430.