Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/Harušás

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

Etymology

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Adjective

*Harušás[1]

white, reddish-white, glowing

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Haruṣás
- Sanskrit: अरुष (aruṣá, “red, reddish”)
Proto-Iranian: *Harušá
- Avestan: 𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬱𐬀 (a^uruša, “white”)
- Middle Persian: [script needed] (ʾlws /⁠arus⁠/, “white”)
  - Persian: الوس (alus, “white horse”)
- Ossetian: урс (urs, “white”), уорс (uors)
- →⇒ Old Armenian: Արուսեակ (Aruseak, “Morning Star, the planet Venus”)
- →⇒? Old Armenian: արշալուրշ (aršalurš)

References

Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “arus.á-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University

Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 113
Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 373–374

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[1] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “arus.á-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University