Reconstruction:Proto-Scythian/bēwarē

This Proto-Scythian 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-Scythian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *baywā́.

Noun

*bēwarē

  1. great multitude, myriad
  2. (later, dialectal) ten thousand

Descendants

  • Proto-Saka-Wakhi: *bēwaru (< acc.sg. *baywáram)
    • Khotanese: [script needed] (byūrru)[1]
  • Proto-Sarmatian: *bēware
    • Alanic: βαιορ (baior), βαιορα (baiora /⁠bēwaræ⁠/)[2][3][4]
    • → Ancient Greek: Βαιόρμαιος (Baiórmaios, m.pn.) [2nd c. CE, Olbia]
    • → Ancient Greek: Βευραζούρια (Beurazoúria, f.pn.) [4th c. CE, Mtskheta]
    • → Ancient Greek: Ὀυμβηούαρος (Oumbēoúaros, m.pn.) [2nd c. CE, Olbia]
    • →? Latin: Beorgus, Beorgor (m.pn.) [5th c., Italy]

References

  1. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979), Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 309
  2. ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2016), Einführung ins Ostmitteliranische [Introduction to East-Central Iranian]‎[1] (in German), Jena: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  3. ^ Abajev, V. I. (1958), Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 262
  4. ^ Abajev, V. I. (1949), Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎[2] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 159–160
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