Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/widaHna-

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

Etymology

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Noun

*widaHna-

1. tent

Descendants

• Northwestern Iranian:
  • Baluchi: گدان (gedán)
  • Central Kurdish: بوان (bwan)
  • Parthian: [Manichaean needed] (wdʾn /⁠wiδān⁠/)
    • → Old Armenian: վրան (vran)
• Southwestern Iranian:
  • Middle Persian:

    Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (wydʾn' /⁠wiyān⁠/)

    Manichaean script: [Manichaean needed] (wyʾn /⁠wiyān⁠/)

    • Bakhtiari: [script needed] (bohõw)
    • Southern Luri: [script needed] (bəhūn)
    • Classical Persian: گیان (goyān)
    • Judeo-Persian: بیان (biyān)

Further reading

• Benveniste, Émile (1957–1958) “Mots d’emprunt iraniens en arménien”, in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume 53, pages 65–66