Talk:իր

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Etymology[edit]

@Vahagn Petrosyan: It is an Iranian loanword from Parthian [Manichaean needed] (ʿyr /⁠īr⁠/, thing, matter), cognate with Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ṣbw; hyl /⁠xīr⁠/, thing, matter) and Middle Persian [Manichaean needed] (xyr /⁠xīr⁠/, thing).--Calak (talk) 13:39, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Calak: I added that origin according to recent scholarship. --Vahag (talk) 15:55, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Vahagn Petrosyan: Thanks. It seems that it is from *arya- "wealth" (see this for more).--Calak (talk) 16:08, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Possibly. Bailey 1979, page 34a has more. In any case, I have no doubt about the Iranian origin of the Armenian. --Vahag (talk) 16:33, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]