ʾsplys
Middle Persian
Etymology
From SWSYA / ʾsp̄ (asp, “horse”) + lyc- (rēz-, “to flow, pour; *to run”).[1] For the sense development of the latter compare Middle Persian tʾhtn' (tāxtan, “to cause to run, flow; to chase; to pour”), Armenian վազել (vazel, “to flow; to run”).[1] Alternatively, the second component is the cognate of Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬉𐬯𐬋 (uruuaēsō, “turning point”).[2]
Noun
Descendants
(Taking Middle Persian as representative of all Middle Iranian)
- Classical Persian: اسپریس (asprēs)
- → Old Armenian: ասպարէս (asparēs), ասպարէզ (asparēz)
- → Georgian: ასპარეზი (asṗarezi)
- → Classical Syriac: ܐܣܦܪܝܣܐ (ʾespərēsāʾ)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ասպարէզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 273b
- ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 867
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 12
Further reading
- Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 29
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 109
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- Thea Chkeidze (2001) “GEORGIA v. LINGUISTIC CONTACTS WITH IRANIAN LANGUAGES”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York
- Claudia A. Ciancaglini (2006) “SYRIAC LANGUAGE i. IRANIAN LOANWORDS IN SYRIAC”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York