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Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/mr̥gáh

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

Alternative reconstructions

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás.

Noun

*mr̥gáh [2]

  1. hen, bird

Descendants
  • Central Iranian:
    • Younger Avestan: 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬖𐬀‎ (mərəγa)
  • Northeastern Iranian:
    • Khotanese: [script needed] (murä)
    • Ossetian: маргъ (marǧ /marγ/, “bird”)
    • Sogdo-Bactrian:
      • Bactrian: μιργο (mirgo /mirγ/, “chicken”)
      • Chorasmian: [script needed] ((ʾ)mγ-)
      • Sogdic: *múrɣəh
        • Sogdian: (/ᵊm(əʳ)γí, məʳγí/)
          Buddhist: Sogdian: [script needed] ((ʾ)mrγ-y)
          Manichaean: 𐫖𐫡𐫄𐫏‎ (mrɣy)
          Sogdian: 𐼺𐽀𐼲𐼷‎ (mrγy)
        • Yagnobi: mʉrγ
  • Southeastern Iranian:
    • Pashto:
      Pashto: مرغه‎ (murğë́, mërğë́), مارغه‎ m (mārğë́, “bird”)
      Waziri: [script needed] (marğe)
  • Northwestern Iranian:
    • Northwestern Iranian I:
      • Kurdish: mir (“bird”) (as in mirîşk, mamir (“hen”) and mirawî (“duck”))
    • Northwestern Iranian II:
      • Baluchi: مرگ‎ (murg, “bird”)
    • Northwestern Iranian III:
      • Gilaki: morɣ‎, murɣ‎
      • Ormuri:
        Kaniguram: mirgá‎
        Logar: morgá‎
      • Parthian:
        Manichaean: 𐫖𐫇𐫡𐫃‎ (mwrg /murγ/)
  • Southwestern Iranian:
    • Old Persian: *𐎶𐎼𐎥 (m-r-g /mr̥gaʰ/)
      • Middle Persian: (/murw/, "bird")
        Manichaean: 𐫖𐫇𐫡𐫇‎ (mwrw)
        Book Pahlavi: 𐮼𐮵𐮹𐮵𐮵‎ (mwlw')
  • → Old Armenian: սիրամարգ (siramarg, “peacock”), լորամարգ (loramarg, “quail-like bird”), մարգաց (margacʿ, “name of the 11th month”)

References
  1. Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎, Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 95
  2. Schmitt, Rüdiger (1989) Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum‎, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 212
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