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Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/Háyxam

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-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

Thematicized from earlier *Háyxš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykš, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óyg-s ~ *h₁ig-s-és, from *h₁eyg- (“ice, frost”) +‎ *-s.

Noun

*Háyxam n [1][2][3]

  1. ice, frost

Descendants
  • Central Iranian:
    • Younger Avestan: 𐬀𐬉𐬑𐬆𐬨‎ n (aēxəm, “frost, ice”)
  • Northeastern Iranian:
    • Old Ossetic: *ex (“ice, hail”)[4]
      • Ossetian:
        Digor: ех (ex)
        Iron: их (ix)
    • Yagnobi:
      Cyrillic: ӣх (īx), ех (ex)
      Latin: īx, ēx
  • Southeastern Iranian:
    • Shughni-Yazghulami-Munji: *ī́xu
      • Shughni-Yazgulami: *ī́x́
        • Shughni-Roshani: *ī́š
          • Shughni:
            Khughni, Roshani: īš
          • Sarikoli: īš

References
  1. Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2000–), “*aixa-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 140-143
  2. Edelman, D. I. (1980), “History of the consonant systems of the North-Pamir Languages”, in Indo-Iranian Journal, volume 22, issue 4, Brill, JSTOR 24653366, page 294
  3. Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎, Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 96
  4. Kim, Ronald I. (2007), “Two problems of Ossetic nominal morphology”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies and Historical Linguistics‎, volume 112, DOI:10.1515/9783110192858.1.47, ISSN 0019-7262, page 1
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