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Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/xšiHrám

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 *kšiHrám, possibly from the BMAC substrate.[1]

Noun

*xšiHrám n [2][3][4]

  1. milk
    Synonyms: *xšwiptah, *páyHah

Descendants
  • Northeastern Iranian:
    • Khotanese: [script needed] (tcīratsa, “sweet juice”) (possibly, + *ćyah?[5])
    • Ossetian: (/(ā)xšēr/)
      Digor: хсыр (xsyr)
      Iron: ӕхсыр (æxsyr)
  • Southeastern Iranian:
    • Munji-Yidgha: [Term?]
      • Munji: خشیر (xšīr)
      • Yidgha: خشیره‎ (xšīra)
  • Northwestern Iranian:
    • Baluchi: شیر‎ (šír)
    • Kurdish: (/šīr/)
      Central Kurdish: شیر‎ (şîr)
      Northern Kurdish: şîr
      Southern Kurdish: شیر‎ (şîr)
  • Southwestern Iranian:
    • Middle Persian: (/šīr/)
      Manichaean: 𐫢𐫏𐫡‎ (šyr), 𐫢𐫏𐫏𐫡‎ (šyyr)
      Book Pahlavi: [Book Pahlavi needed] (HLḆA), [Book Pahlavi needed] (šyl)

References
  1. Lubotsky, Alexander (1999), “The Indo-Iranian substratum”, in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations‎, Helsinki
  2. Klein, Jared S.; Joseph, Brian D.; Fritz, Matthias, editor (2017–2018), “Chapter VI: Iranian”, in Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The lexicon of Iranian, page 582
  3. Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “ksīrá-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 433
  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 50
  5. Bailey, H. W. (1979), “tcīratsa”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 140
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