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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/priHyás

This Proto-Indo-Iranian 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-Indo-Iranian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *priHyós.

Adjective

*priHyás[1]

  1. dear, beloved

Descendants
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *priHyás
  • Proto-Iranian: *friHyáh
    • Avestan: 𐬟𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (friia, “dear, beloved, friend, well-wisher”)
    • Khotanese: [script needed] (briya-, “beloved, dear, treasured”)
    • Parthian: [script needed] (fryẖ, “dear, beloved”)
    • Middle Persian: [script needed] (’fryẖ), [script needed] (’p̄ryẖ), [script needed] (’p̄ryy, “to create, to bless”)
      • Persian: فری (fari, “dear, beloved, pleasing”) (archaic)
    • Sogdian: [script needed] (pry-) (Buddhist), [script needed] (fry-, “dear”) (Christian, Manichaean)

References
  1. Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “priyá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
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