düš(t)

Kamkata-viri

Alternative forms

  • dušt (Western, Northeastern)
  • duy (Northeastern)

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *dasta, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰástas, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰóstos, from *ǵʰes- (hand).[1]

Noun

düš ~ düšt m (Southeastern)[2][3]

  1. hand

References

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