Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/hmáwčati

This Proto-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-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *smáwčati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)méwk-e-ti, from *(s)mewk- (“untie, strip”) +‎ *-eti.[1]

Verb

*hmáwčati[2]

to release, let loose, free

Derived terms

*frahmáwčati (“to undress”) (+ *fra-)
- Younger Avestan: 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬊𐬗𐬀𐬙𐬀‎ (framaocata, 3sg.pres.med.)
- Khwarezmian: [script needed] (š’mcyd)
- Parthian:
  Manichaean: 𐫜𐫡𐫀𐫖𐫇𐫝𐫏𐫅‎ (frʾmwcyd)
- Sogdian:
  Buddhist: [script needed] (βr’’mcn-)
- Ossetian: ("to tear apart, rip out")
  Digor: рӕмодзун (ræmoʒun)
  Iron: рӕму́дзын (ræmúʒyn)
*nišmáwčati (“to hide, conceal; conserve”)(+ *ni-)
*patišmáwčati (“to put on clothing, dress; to shoe”) (+ *pati-)
- Younger Avestan: 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌𐬱𐬨𐬎𐬑𐬙𐬀‎ (paⁱtišmuxta, perf.pass.)
- Khwarezmian: [script needed] (pcmc-)
- Ishkashimi: pьmьc-
- Khotanese: [script needed] (paṃjs-)
- Sanglechi: [script needed] (pamej-)
- Shughni: пиниӡ (piniʒ)
- Sogdian: [script needed] (ptmwγt /pətmuγd/, 3sg.pres.)
- Wakhi: [script needed] (pumuc-), pum(ы)c-
- Parthian:
  Manichaean: 𐫛𐫅𐫖𐫇𐫝𐫏𐫅‎ (pdmwcyd)
- Sogdian: [script needed] (ptmwk /pǝtmōk/, “garment, dress”)
- Middle Persian: (/paymōzēd/)
  Manichaean: 𐫛𐫏𐫖𐫇𐫝𐫏𐫅‎ (pymwcyd)
  Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ptmwcyt)
- ⇒ *patišmáwčakah
  - → Old Armenian: պատմուճակ (patmučak)
- ⇒ *patišmáwčanah (“clothes, garment”)
  - Parthian:
    Manichaean: 𐫛𐫏𐫖𐫇𐫝𐫗‎ (pdmwcn /padmōžan/)
  - Middle Persian: (/paymōzan/)
    Manichaean: 𐫛𐫏𐫖𐫇𐫝𐫗‎ (pymwcn)
    Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ptmwcn)
  - → Old Armenian: պատմուճան (patmučan)
*hmáwčakah (“shoe”)
- Parthian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (mwck' /mōžag/)
- Middle Persian:
  Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (mwck' /mōzag/)
  Pazend: 𐬨𐬋𐬲𐬀‎ (mōža, “stocking, boot”)
  - Classical Persian: موزه‎ (mōza, “shoe”)
  - → Arabic: مُوزَج‎ (mūzaj)
  - → Baluchi: موزگ‎ (mōzag)
- → Old Armenian: մուճակ (mučak)
*hmáwčuš (“shoe”)
- Middle Persian: (/mōg/)
  Manichaean: 𐫖𐫇𐫃‎ (mwg)
  Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (mwk')
  - → Arabic: مُوق‎ (mūq)
    - → Persian: موق‎ (mūq, “large boot”)
  - → Aramaic:
    Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מוקא‎ (“shoe”)
    Classical Syriac: ܡܘܩܐ‎ (mōqā, “shoe, slipper”)
  - → Old Armenian: մոյկ (moyk), մոյգ (moyg)
  - → Georgian: მოგვი (mogvi)
  - → Hebrew: מוֹק‎ (môq)
- → Ancient Greek: βαυκίδες (baukídes, “women's shoes”) (possibly)

Descendants

Ormuri: [script needed] (mọ̄ž-), [script needed] (mọ̄k-, “to loosen, untie”)

References

Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “moc”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*(h)mauč”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 138ff

Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մոյկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 344a
Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պատմուճան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 46b
Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999), “pumuc-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN, page 270

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

[2] Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*(h)mauč”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 138ff