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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/dáHtram

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 1

From *daH- (“to cut, mow”, root) +‎ *tram (suffix denoting an instrument).

Noun

*dáHtram n [1]

  1. a sickle, scythe

Descendants
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *dáHtram
  • Proto-Iranian: *dáHθram
    • Bartangi: δōς
    • Old Persian: [script needed] (*dāça)
      • Middle Persian: [script needed] (dʾs /⁠dās⁠/, “sickle”)
    • Parthian: [script needed] (dēš, “sickle”)
    • Pashto: لور (lor)
    • Sogdian: [script needed] (δrʾʾšʾy)
    • Wakhi: δәtr, δыtr
    • Yagnobi: [script needed] (dirot), [script needed] (diros)

Further reading
  • Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2012) “The Iranian Reflexes of Proto-Iranian *ns”, in Orientalia Suecana‎, volume 61, page 139

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

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *déh₃-trom, from *deh₃- (“to give”).

Noun

*dáHtram n [1]

  1. a gift, offering

Descendants
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *dáHtram
  • Proto-Iranian: *dáHθram
    • Avestan: 𐬛𐬁𐬚𐬭𐬀 (dāθra, “gift, offering”)
  • → Proto-Finnic: *takra (“piece of meat, bait”)[2]

References
  1. Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “dātrá”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
  2. Holopainen, Sampsa: Indo-Iranian Borrowings In Uralic University of Helsinki (2019)
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