< Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian
Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/widaHna-
Proto-Iranian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *widaHna-. Equivalent to *wi- + *daH + *-na.
Noun
*widaHna-
- tent
Descendants
- Norththwestern Iranian:
- Baluchi: گدان (gidān)
- Kurdish: بوان (bwān)
- Parthian: [Manichaean needed] (wdʾn /wiδān/)
- → Old Armenian: վրան (vran)
- Southwestern Iranian:
- Middle Persian: (/wiyān/)
- Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (wydʾn')
- Manichaean: [Manichaean needed] (wyʾn)
- Bakhtiari: [script needed] (bohõw)
- Southern Luri: [script needed] (bəhūn)
- Classical Persian: گیان (giyān)
- Judeo-Persian: بیان (biyān)
- Middle Persian: (/wiyān/)
Further reading
- Benveniste, Émile (1957–1958), “Mots d’emprunt iraniens en arménien”, in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume 53, pages 65–66