User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/kapā́lah

This 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

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kapā́las, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂p-ḗ-ló-s, *kh₂p-é-lo-s, from *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”).

Noun

*kapā́lah n

1. skull
2. large round vessel

Descendants

• Ossetian:

  Digor Ossetian: хъобалӕ (qobalæ, “head”)

  Iron Ossetian: хъобал (qobal, “neck”)

• Middle Persian: (“container, vessel”)
  • Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (kpʾlk' /⁠kabārag⁠/)
    • Classical Persian: [script needed] (kabāra)
• Kurdish:
  • Central Kurdish: [script needed] (kapōl, “type of measurement”)

• Wakhi: kapol (“head”)
• Khowar: [script needed] (kapal, “head”)
• Yazghulami: [script needed] (kapol)
• Sanglechi: [script needed] (kapāl)
• Shughni: kapōl

• Tajik:

  Badakhshani: капол (kapol, “head; nape”)

• Bactrian: коπαλо (коpalо, “bowl”)