yüṣ

Kamkata-viri

Alternative forms

  • yuṣ (Western, Northeastern)

Etymology

Borrowed from a descendant of Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣá, “apparition, supernatural being”).[1][2]

Noun

yüṣ m (Southeastern)[3][4]

  1. demon

References

  1. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2025). The Diversification of Indo-Iranian and the Position of the Nuristani Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  2. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2023). Lād "law": a Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom, page 4
  3. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “i′uṣ”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]
  4. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.
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