čom

Kamkata-viri

Alternative forms

  • čum (Western (Ktivi))

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *čārma (or less likely borrowed from a descendant of Sanskrit चर्मन् (cárman)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čárma, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever”).[1]

Noun

čom m (Western, Northeastern, Southeastern)[2][3]

  1. skin
  2. hide

References

  1. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2025). The Diversification of Indo-Iranian and the Position of the Nuristani Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  2. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “č′om”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]
  3. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.
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