Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/HáHtmā
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Proto-Indo-Iranian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁éh₁t-mō ~ *h₁h₁t-m̥nés (“breath, spirit”), from *h₁eh₁t- (“to breathe”) + *-mō. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ēþmô (“breath”), Proto-Tocharian *āñcäme (“wish, self, soul”).
Noun[edit]
*HáHtmā ~ *Htmáns m[1][2][N 1]
Descendants[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ The declension looks to have been contaminated by the neuter men-stem.
References[edit]
- ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2015) “Suppletive Phenomena in Older Indo-Iranian Noun Inflection”, in Diachrony and Suppletion[1], Prague: “*(H)áHtmān- ~ *(H)Htman- ‘breath’ > Ved. ātmā́n- ~ tmán- RV → ātmā́n- ~ ātmán”
- ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “ātmán-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University