Reconstruction:Proto-Iranian/gāwah
Proto-Iranian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *gāwas, from Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾ow-o-s, from *g⁽ʷ⁾ew- (“to increase”).[1][2]
Noun
*gāwah m[2]
- an increase
Inflection
| masculine a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *gāwah | *gāwā(w) | *gāwāh(ah) |
| vocative | *gāwa | *gāwā(w) | *gāwāh(ah) |
| accusative | *gāwam | *gāwā(w) | *gāwānh |
| instrumental | *gāwaH | *gāwaybʰyā(m) | *gāwāyš |
| ablative | *gāwāt | *gāwaybʰyā(m) | *gāwaybʰyah |
| dative | *gāwāy | *gāwaybʰyā(m) | *gāwaybʰyah |
| genitive | *gāwahya | *gāwayāh | *gāwānaHam |
| locative | *gāway | *gāwayaw | *gāwayšu |
Derived terms
- *fragāwah
- *Habigāwah[2][3][4]
- Proto-Scythian: *aβiɣāwi
- Khotanese: [script needed] (byau, “an increase”)
- Khwarezmian: [script needed] (βɣʾw /βɣāw/, “an increase; more”)
- Parthian: 𐫀𐫁𐫃𐫀𐫇 (ʾbgʾw /aβɣāw/, “an increase”)
- Proto-Scythian: *aβiɣāwi
References
- ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*gau (*ǰau)”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 112-113
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2007), “*⁴gau- : gu-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 226-228: “*gāu̯a-”
- ^ Benzing, Johannes (1983), “ʾβγʾw”, in Chwaresmischer Wortindex, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz: “*abi-gāwa-”
- ^ Henning, W. B. (1971), “βγʾw”, in MacKenzie, D. N., editor, A Fragment of a Khwarezmian Dictionary (Tehran University. Publication no. 1317), London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN, page 33: “*abi-gāwa-”