From Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s.
*maȷ́ʰā́ (comparative *maȷ́ʰyas, superlative *maȷ́ʰištʰas)[1]
- big, great
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *maźʰā́
- Sanskrit: महत् (mahát), महा (mahā́)
- Proto-Iranian: *majā́
- Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬀 (maza)
- Northern Kurdish: mezin
- Old Persian: *maθah
- Middle Persian:
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ms /meh/, “great(er)”)
- Manichaean script: 𐫖𐫏𐫆 (myẖ /meh/)
- Persian: مه (meh)
- Northern Luri: مںس (məs, “big, fat”)
- ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2015) “Suppletive Phenomena in Older Indo-Iranian Noun Inflection”, in Diachrony and Suppletion[1]