bʾg

Middle Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰāgá- (“portion, share, allotment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”); see there for more. The sense development is ‘portion, share, allotment’ → ‘landed allotment’ → ‘garden’. The same semantic development occurred in the Armenian cognate բակ (bak).

Noun

bʾg • (bāğ)

  1. garden, orchard

Descendants
  • Persian: باغ‎ (bâğ) (see there for further descendants)

References
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “bāγ”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2013), “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎, issue 10, page 99
  • Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 53
  • Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 51
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