Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/yáwah

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Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/yáwah

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 *yáwas.

Noun

*yáwah m[1][2]

1. barley
2. cereal, grain

Descendants

• Central Iranian:
  • Avestan: 𐬫𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀‎ (yauua)
• Northeastern Iranian:
  • Scythian: [Term?]
    • Ossetian: йӕу (jæw)
    • Wakhi: žaw, žow
  • Sogdo-Bactrian:
    • Bactrian: ιαοι (iaoi), ιαο (iao), ιαοο (iaoo /yaw/)
    • Sogdic: [Term?]
      • Sogdian: (/yəwí/)

        Sogdian: 𐼷𐼴𐼷‎ (ywy)

        Manichaean: 𐫏𐫇𐫏‎ (ywy)

      • Yagnobi: [script needed] (yaw)
• Southeastern Iranian:
  • Parachi: [script needed] (žō)
  • Shughni-Yazghulami-Munji: [Term?]
    • Munji: [script needed] (you)
    • Shughni: ǰav
• Southwestern Iranian:
  • Middle Persian:

    Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (Šᵍ /jaw/)

    • Persian: جو‎ (jou)
• → Aramaic: [script needed] (ywdn, “grain-house”)
• →? Middle Armenian: ձաւար (jawar)

Further reading

• Abajev, V. I. (1958) Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, pages 563–564

References

1. Cheung, Johnny (2002) Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN, page 49: “Plr. *i̯au̯a-”
2. Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎, Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 123: “*i̯áu̯a-”