Reconstruction:Old Median/ásmən

This Old Median 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.

Old Median

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Háćmā.

Noun

*ásmən [1]

sky
stone

Derived terms

Old Median: *Asmaraupah
- → Elamite: 𒊍𒈠𒊏𒌋𒉺 (as-ma-ra-u-pa /ʾasmaraupa/)

Descendants

→ Old Persian: 𐎠𐎿𐎶𐎴 (asman)
- Middle Persian:
  Book Pahlavi: 𐮰𐮽𐮼𐮰𐮵𐮵‎ (ʾsmʾn' /asmān/)[2]
  - Classical Persian: آسمان‎ (âsmân)
    - Dari: آسمان‎ (ā̊smā̊n)
    - Iranian Persian: آسمان‎ (âsemân, âsmân)
    - Tajik: осмон (osmon)
      - → Talysh: осмон
    - → Baluchi: آسمان‎ (ásmán)
    - → Gujarati: આસમાન (āsamān)
    - → Kermanic:
      Vonishuni: آسمون‎ (ā̊semūn)
      Qohrudi: آسمون‎ (ā̊semūn)
      Kesehi: آسمون‎ (ā̊semūn)
      Zefrehi: آسمو‎ (ā̊smū)
      Kafroni: آسمان‎ (ā̊s(e)mā̊n)
      Meymehi: آسمون‎ (āsɛmūn)
      Soi: آسمون‎ (āsemūn)
      Natanzi: آسمون‎ (ā̊semūn)
    - → Hindi: आसमान (āsmān)
    - → Punjabi: ਆਸਮਾਨ (āsmān)
    - → Rajasthani: असमाण
    - → Sindhi: آسمان‎ (āsmān)
    - → Sivandi: آسمان (āsemān)
    - → Urdu: آسمان‎ (āsmān)

References

Tavernier, Jan (2007), “*Asman-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 577
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

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[1] Tavernier, Jan (2007), “*Asman-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 577

[2] MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press