Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/spáćš

This Proto-Indo-Iranian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *spéḱs (“watcher, spy”).

Noun

*spáćš m

1. watcher
2. spy

Descendants

• Proto-Indo-Aryan: *spáṭṣ
  • Sanskrit: स्पश् (spáś) (स्पट् (spáṭ, nom. sg))
• Proto-Iranian: *spáš
  • Avestan: 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬯 (spas) (𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬱 (spaš, nom. sg))

References

• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “paś-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
• Martínez García, Javier, de Vaan, Michiel (2014) Introduction to Avestan (Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages; 1)‎^[1], Brill, →ISBN