Reconstruction:Old Persian/θigrah

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This Old Persian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Proto-Ossetic *ćiǧrɨ (whence Old Ossetic *cirǧ (“sharp; garlic”)), from Proto-Scythian *tiǧri. Doublet of 𐎫𐎥𐎼 (t-g-r /⁠tigraʰ⁠/, “sharp”).[1]

Noun[edit]

*θigrah[2][3][1][4][5][6]

  1. garlic

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Persian: (/⁠sigr, sīr⁠/)
    Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (syl), [script needed] (TWMʾ)

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lubotsky, Alexander (2002) “Scythian elements in Old Iranian”, in Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editor, Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples‎[1], Oxford University Press, →DOI, pages 195-196, 198-199
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tavernier, Jan (2007) “1.4.12.6 Θaigracis (Θ-a-i-g-r-č-i-š)”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 39: “39”
  3. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2003) Beekes, R.S.P., Lubotsky, A., Weitenberg, J.J.S., editors, The Avestan Vowels (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 12), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 93-94
  4. ^ Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)‎[2], Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 12
  5. ^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 61: “OP *θigra- > LMP sīr (< EMP *sigr) ‘garlic’”
  6. ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2017) “Agricultural terms in Indo-Iranian”, in Language Dispersal Beyond Farming‎[3], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 285-286
  7. ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (1929) “sīr²”, in Parachi and Ormuri (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume I, Oslo: Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning; H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), page 288
  8. ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) “sīr”, in Iranian Pamir Languages (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning; H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), page 411
  9. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “śígru-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[4] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 635
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