Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/maȷ́ʰā́

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s.

Adjective[edit]

*maȷ́ʰā́ (comparative *maȷ́ʰyas, superlative *maȷ́ʰištʰas)[1]

  1. big, great

Descendants[edit]

  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *maźʰā́
  • Proto-Iranian: *majā́
    • Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬀 (maza)
    • Northern Kurdish: mezin
    • Old Persian: *maθah
      • Middle Persian:
        Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ms /⁠meh⁠/, “great(er)”)
        Manichaean script: 𐫖𐫏𐫆 (myẖ /⁠meh⁠/)
        • Persian: مه (meh)
        • Northern Luri: مںس (məs, “big, fat”)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2015) “Suppletive Phenomena in Older Indo-Iranian Noun Inflection”, in Diachrony and Suppletion‎[1]
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