Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/kunčit

This Proto-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-Iranian

Reconstruction

Attested only in Middle Iranian.

Etymology

Presumably related to or borrowed from Sanskrit कुञ्चिका (kuñcikā, “fennel flower seed”).

Noun

*kunčit

1. sesame

Descendants

• Northeastern Iranian:
  • Khotanese: [script needed] (kuṃjsata)
    • → Proto-Tocharian:
      • Tocharian A: kuñcit
      • Tocharian B: kuñcit, kwäñcit
  • Sogdo-Bactrian:
    • Khwarezmian: كنڅد (knśd /⁠*kunśid⁠/)
    • Sogdian: [script needed] (kwyštʾyc /⁠kwištēč⁠/)
• Southeastern Iranian:
  • Pashto: کنځله (kunźë́la), کنزله (kunzë́la)
• Northwestern Iranian:
  • Baluchi: کنچیث (kunčīθ)
  • Kurdish:

    Central Kurdish: کونجی (kunǰī)

    Northern Kurdish: kuncî (kunǰī)

    Southern Kurdish: کونجی (kwinǰī)

  • Proto-Medo-Parthian:
    • Caspian:
      • Gilaki: کوچیل (kučīl)
      • Old Mazanderani: کنجی (kunǰī)
        • Mazanderani: کانجی (kānǰī), کٚنجی (kënǰī)
    • Old Median:
      • Kermanic:

        Zoroastrian Dari, Isfahani: konǰet

        Kermani: konǰī

      • Semnani: کنجی (konǰī)
    • Zaza-Gorani:

      Gurani: کونجی (kunǰī)

      Zazaki: kuncı (kunǰe)

• Southwestern Iranian:
  • Middle Persian: (/⁠kunǰīd⁠/)

    Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ŠMg), [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwncyt)

    Pazend script: 𐬐𐬎𐬥𐬘𐬌𐬛 (kunjid)

    • Classical Persian: کنجد (kunǰid), کنجید (kunǰīd)

      Dari: کنجد (kunǰid), کنجید (kunǰīd)

      Iranian Persian: کنجد (konǰed), کنجید (konjid)

      Tajik: кунҷид (kunjid)

      • → Middle Armenian: քնճութ (kʿnčutʿ)
        • Armenian: քնջութ (kʿnǰutʿ), Armenian: քունջութ (kʿunǰutʿ)
        • → Georgian: ქუნჯუტი (kunǯuṭi)
    • → Old Armenian: կնճիթ (knčitʿ), կնջիթ (knǰitʿ), կնջիւթ (knǰiwtʿ), կնճութ (knčutʿ), կնճիթն (knčitʿn), կանճուտ (kančut), կաճուտ (kačut)
    • → Common Turkic: *künčit
      • → Azerbaijani: (/⁠küncüt⁠/)

        Arabic script: کۆنجۆت

        Latin script: küncüt

      • → Mongolian: гүнжид (günžid)
      • → Russian: кунжу́т (kunžút)
      • → Turkish: küncü (dialectal)

Further reading

• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 95
• Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, page 288
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 727-728