Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/Hāwyám

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Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/Hāwyám

This Proto-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-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hāwyám, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

Noun

*Hāwyám m[1][2]

1. egg

Descendants

• Central Iranian:
  • Younger Avestan: 𐬀𐬉𐬨‎ (aēm)
• Northeastern Iranian:
  • Chorasmian: [script needed] (y'k /yāg/)
  • Scythian: [Term?]
    • Khotanese: [script needed] (āhā)
    • Ossetian: :

      Iron: айк (ajk)

      Digor: айкӕ (ajkæ)

• Southeastern Iranian:
  • Pashto: هګۍ‎ (hagë́y), ها‎ (hā), اګۍ‎ (agë́y), وۍ‎ (wë́y), ويه‎ (wë́ya), وويه‎ (wóya)
  • Sanglechi-Ishkashimi: [Term?]
    • Ishkashimi: [script needed] (akik, “egg”)
    • Sanglechi: [script needed] (ākīk, “egg”)
• Northwestern Iranian:
  • Baluchi: ہیگ‎ (heyg), ہیک‎ (heyk)
  • Kurdish:

    Central Kurdish: ھێلکە‎ (hēlke)

    Northern Kurdish: hêk (hēk)

    Southern Kurdish: خا‎ (xā)

    Laki: خا‎ (xā)

  • Medo-Parthian: *āwyágah
    • Gilaki: خایه‎ (xāyə), آو‎ (āw, “egg; as a suffix in some compand nouns”)
    • Old Median: *āwyágah
      • Middle Median: *āwyag
        • Rudbari: اووا (uwâ, “egg”)
        • Tatic: [Term?]
          • Talysh:
            • Central Talysh: اویه‎ (uya, “egg”)
            • Northern Talysh: uvә (“egg”)
          • Old Tati: [Term?]
            • Harzani: اوه (ova, “egg”)
            • Karingani: اویو (uyo, “egg”)
            • Khoini: خا (xā)
      • Semnani: [script needed] (xä)
    • Zaza-Gorani: [Term?]
      • Gurani: ھێڵە‎ (hēłe)
      • Zazaki: hak
• Southwestern Iranian:
  • Middle Persian: (/xāyag/, “egg”)

    Manichaean: 𐫟𐫀𐫏𐫃‎ (xʾyg)

    Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (hʾdk'), [Book Pahlavi needed] (hʾdyk')

    • Lurish:

      Northern Luri: خاک‎ (xāk, “egg of any birds”), خا‎ (xā, “egg of hen”), خایه‎ (xāya, “testicle”)

      Bakhtiari: خایه‎ (xāya)

      Southern Luri: خاگ‎ (xāg)

    • Classical Persian: خایه‎ (xâya, “egg; testicle”), خاگ‎ (xāg, “egg”), خواگ‎ (xʷāg, “egg”)
      • Dari: خایه‎ (xâye)
      • Iranian Persian: خایه‎ (xâye)
      • Tajik: хоя (xoya)
        • → Yagnobi: хоя (xōya)
      • → Talysh: خایه‎ (xāyə, “testicle”)
      • → Old Azari: خایه‎ (xāya, “testicle”)
        • Azerbaijani: [Term?] (“testicle”)

          Latin: xaya

          Arabic: خایا‎ (xāyā)

      • → Ottoman Turkish: خایا‎ (haya, “testicle”)
        • Turkish: haya

References

1. Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project)‎, Leiden University
2. Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎, Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 183