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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/kšudrás

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 *k⁽ʷ⁾sud-ró-s, from *k⁽ʷ⁾sewd- (“to disperse, to disintegrate”).

Adjective

*kšudrás[1]

  1. minute, small
  2. dispersed

Descendants
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *kṣudrás
  • Proto-Iranian: *xšudráh (“liquid”)
    • Younger Avestan: 𐬑𐬱𐬎𐬜𐬭𐬀 (xšuδra), 𐬑𐬱𐬎𐬛𐬭𐬀 (xšudra, “liquid”)
    • Middle Persian: [script needed] (šwsl /⁠šusar⁠/, “semen”)
    • ⇒ Proto-Iranian: *xšudra-štaHkah[2]
      • Sarikoli: [script needed] (x̌öx̌tuǰ, “watering place”)

References
  1. Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “ks.udrá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
  2. Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*xšaud-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 455
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