< Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian
Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/ǰʰánti
Proto-Indo-Iranian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰénti.
Verb
*ǰʰánti[1]
- to strike, slay, kill
Descendants
- Indo-Aryan: *źʰánti
- Sanskrit: हन्ति (hánti)
- Gujarati: હણવું (haṇvũ)
- Sanskrit: हन्ति (hánti)
- Iranian: *ǰánti[2]
- Avestan: 𐬘𐬀𐬌𐬧𐬙𐬌 (jaiṇti)
- Old Persian: 𐎩𐎫𐎡𐎹 (j-t-i-y /jaⁿtiy/)
- Middle Persian: [script needed] (znyt /zanēd/)
- Persian: زدن (zadan)
- Parthian: 𐫋𐫗𐫏𐫅 (jnyd /zanēd/)
- Manichaean Middle Persian: 𐫋𐫗𐫏𐫅 (jnyd /zanēd/)
- Middle Persian: [script needed] (znyt /zanēd/)
References
- Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “han”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
- Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*ǰan”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 224-225