Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/mádyah
Proto-Iranian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas.
Adjective
Derived terms
- *madyānah (“middle, waist”) (+ *-anah)
Descendants
- Central Iranian:
- Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬌 (maiδiiāi, loc.sg.)
- Northeastern Iranian:
- Southeastern Iranian:
- Pashto: ملا f (mlā, “waist”)
References
- ^ Cheung, Johnny (2002) Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN, pages 14, 36, 103
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) “myāna-”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 340-341
- ^ Kim, Ronald I. (2007) “Two problems of Ossetic nominal morphology”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies and Historical Linguistics[1], volume 112, , →ISSN, pages 62-63
- ^ Cheung, Johnny (2011) Selected Pashto Problems II. Historical Phonology 1: On Vocalism and Etyma (Iran and the Caucasus)[2], volume 15, numbers 1-2, Brill Academic Publishers, page 191
- ^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 55
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “Mattēna”, 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 530: “530”