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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/ayám

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

Alternative reconstructions
  • *Hayám

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ey-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *iz, Proto-Italic *is.

Pronoun

*ayám m[1][2][3][4]

  1. he, this (proximal)

Descendants
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ayám
  • Proto-Iranian: *ayám
    • Old Avestan: 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬇𐬨 (aiiə̄m), 𐬀𐬉𐬨 (aēm)
      • Younger Avestan: 𐬀𐬉𐬨 (aēm)
    • Kurdish:
      • Northern Kurdish: ê, yê

References
  1. Skjævø, Prods Oktor (2003) An Introduction to Young Avestan‎, 4th edition, page 44
  2. Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “ay-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 103
  3. Blažek, Václav with Hegedűs, Irén (2010) “On the position of Nuristani within Indo-Iranian”, in Sukač, Roman, Šefčík, Ondřej, editors, Sound of Indo-European 2: Papers on Indo-European Phonetics, Phonemics and Morphophonemics‎, volume 41, Munich: Lincom Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, published 2012, →ISBN, page 56
  4. Martínez García, Javier, de Vaan, Michiel (2014) Introduction to Avestan (Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages; 1)‎, Brill, →ISBN
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