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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/máryas
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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 *mér-yo-s, from *mer- (“young boy, girl”). Cognate with Latin marītus (“husband”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “girl, boy”), Old Armenian մարի (mari, “young man; female bird; hen”), Lithuanian martì (“daughter-in-law”), mergà (“girl”), Proto-Brythonic *moruɨn (“girl”), *merx (“girl”).[1]
Declension
| masculine a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *máryas | *máryā | *máryā, -ās(as) |
| vocative | *márya | *máryā | *máryā, -ās(as) |
| accusative | *máryam | *máryā | *máryāns |
| instrumental | *máryā | *máryaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām | *máryāyš |
| ablative | *máryāt | *máryaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām | *máryaybʰyas |
| dative | *máryāy | *máryaybʰyaH, -ābʰyām | *máryaybʰyas |
| genitive | *máryasya | *máryayās | *máryāna(H)m |
| locative | *máryay | *máryayaw | *máryayšu |
Descendants
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *máryas
- Sanskrit: मर्य (márya)
- Proto-Iranian: *máryah
- Younger Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (mairiia, “scoundrel, knave”)
- Bactrian: μαρηγο (marēgo, “servant”)
- Old Persian: 𐎶𐎼𐎡𐎣 (m-r-i-k /marīkaʰ/) (< earlier *mariyakaʰ)
- Proto-Nuristani: *mařaká, *mařakká
- Northern Nuristani:
- Kamkata-viri:
- Kativiri: mërë́ (“boy”)
- Kamkata-viri:
- Southern Nuristani:
- Ashkun: mërák (“boy”)
- Northern Nuristani:
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page marītus of 365-366
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “márya-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 329-330
- Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
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