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Reconstruction:Old Persian/ciθrah

This Old Persian 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.

Old Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Median *ciθrah[1] or Avestan 𐬗𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 (ciθra), both from Proto-Iranian *ciθráh. Displaced doublet of 𐎨𐎡𐏂 (c-i-ç /⁠čiçaʰ⁠/).

Noun

*ciθrah[1]

  1. form, appearance
  2. nature, essence
  3. face

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Median *ciθrah or Avestan 𐬗𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 (ciθra), both from Proto-Iranian *ciθrá. Displaced doublet of 𐎨𐎡𐏂 (c-i-ç /⁠čiçaʰ⁠/).

Noun

*ciθrah

  1. seed
  2. lineage

Descendants
  • Middle Persian: (/⁠čihr⁠/)
    Manichaean script: 𐫝𐫏𐫍𐫡 (cyhr)
    Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (cyhl)
    • Classical Persian: چهر (cihr)

References
  1. Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation)‎, Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, page 13: “*ciθra-”
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