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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/Hmaygʰás

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

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃moygʰ-ó-s, from *h₃meygʰ- (“fog, mist, cloud”) +‎ *-ós.

Noun

*Hmaygʰás m[1]

  1. cloud

Declension
masculine a-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *Hmaygʰás *Hmaygʰā́ *Hmaygʰā́, -ā́s(as)
vocative *Hmaygʰa *Hmaygʰā́ *Hmaygʰā́, -ā́s(as)
accusative *Hmaygʰám *Hmaygʰā́ *Hmaygʰā́ns
instrumental *Hmaygʰā́ *HmaygʰáybʰyaH, -ā́bʰyām *Hmaygʰā́yš
ablative *Hmaygʰā́t *HmaygʰáybʰyaH, -ā́bʰyām *Hmaygʰáybʰyas
dative *Hmaygʰā́y *HmaygʰáybʰyaH, -ā́bʰyām *Hmaygʰáybʰyas
genitive *Hmaygʰásya *Hmaygʰáyās *Hmaygʰā́na(H)m
locative *Hmaygʰáy *Hmaygʰáyaw *Hmaygʰáyšu

Descendants
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Hmaygʰás
    • Sanskrit: मेघ (meghá) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Iranian: *Hmaygáh[2]
    • Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬉𐬖𐬀 (maēγa)
    • Northern Kurdish: mij
    • Parthian:
      Manichaean script: 𐫖𐫏𐫃 (myg /⁠mēγ⁠/)
      • → Middle Persian:
        Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (myγ /⁠mēγ⁠/, “cloud, mist”)

References
  1. Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “meghá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
  2. Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 140—142
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