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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/ǰyáH

This Proto-Indo-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-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷyéH.

Noun

*ǰyáH f[1]

  1. bowstring

Derived terms
  • *ǰyáHakah ~ ǰyáHīkah (“related to string, of string”)
    • Khwarezmian: ازیک‎ (ʾzyk /*əzīk/, “rope; bowstring”)
    • Baluchi: جیگ‎ (jīg, “string”)
    • Northern Kurdish: jîk (/žīk/)
    • Middle Persian: (/zīg/, “of string; table; asrtonomical table, Zij”)
      Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (zyk')
      Manichaean: 𐫉𐫏𐫏𐫃‎ (zyyg), 𐫉𐫙𐫏𐫃‎‎ (zʿyg‎)
      Pazend: 𐬘𐬍𐬐‎ (jīk)
      • Classical Persian: زیگ‎ (zīg, “Zij; table; intestine's strings”)
        • → Arabic: زيج‎ (zīj), زيق‎ (zīq)
          • → Persian: زیج‎ (zij)
            Iranian Persian: زیچ‎ (zīč, “intestine's strings”) (misspelling)
            • Iranian Persian: زیچک‎ (zīčak, “intestine's sausage”), زیجک‎ (zijak)

Descendants
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ȷ́yáH
    • Sanskrit: ज्या (jyā́) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Iranian: *ǰyáH
    • Avestan: 𐬘𐬌𐬌𐬁‎ (jiiā)
    • Ossetian: (“sinew; vein, strings”)
      Digor: гъеу (ǧew)
      Iron: хъиу (qiw)
    • Khotanese: [script needed] (jye)
    • Pashto: ژۍ‎ (žəy)
    • Kurdish:
      Central Kurdish: ژێ‎ (jê /žē/)
      Northern Kurdish: jih (/žih/), jî (/žī/)
    • Gurani: ژی‎ (jî /žī/)
    • Middle Persian: (/zīh/)
      Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (zyh)
      Inscriptional Pahlavi: 𐭦𐭩𐭧‎ (zyḥ)
      • Classical Persian: زه‎ (zih, “bowstring”)
        Dari: زه‎ (zih)
        Iranian Persian: زه‎ (zeh)
        Tajik: зиҳ (zih)

References
  1. Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “jyā́-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
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