LHMA

Middle Persian[edit]

From Old Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *nagna- (compare Sogdian [script needed] (nγn- /⁠naγn-⁠/, “bread”), Baluchi (nagan), Pashto [script needed] (naγan), Manichaean Parthian 𐫗𐫃𐫗 (ngn /⁠naγn⁠/), Khotanese [script needed] (nāṃji), and possibly the Old Armenian loanword նկան (nkan)); from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?] (compare Sanskrit नग्नहु (nagnahu, “ferment, a drug used for fermenting spirituous liquor”)). Further origin is unclear, but may stem from Proto-Iranian *ni-kana- (“buried or laid under hot ashes”), from Proto-Indo-European *ní (“inside, down”) + Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanH- (“to dig”). Another theory derives the term from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare, naked”), in the sense "plain bread".

LHMA • (LHMA /nān/)

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Harmatta, János (1953) “Three Iranian Words for ‘Bread’”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎^[1], volume 3, number 3, pages 245–283
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “nān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 58
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 6