Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/waȷ́ʰ-

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 *weǵʰ-. Compare Latin vehō (“I carry, bear”).

    Root

    *waȷ́ʰ-

    1. to bear, carry
    2. to drive

    Descendants

    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *waźʰ-
      • Sanskrit: वह् (vah, “to bear, carry”)
        • Magadhi Prakrit:
          • Assamese: ব (bo)
    • Proto-Iranian: *waj- (“to carry; to drive (a chariot or similar)”)
      • Avestan: 𐬬𐬀𐬰- (vaz-, “to move, to run”)
      • Baluchi: [script needed] (gwast / gwaz-, “to pass”)
      • Khunsari: [script needed] (vuza / vuz-, “to run, to run away”)
      • Kurdish:
        Northern Kurdish: bezîn (“to run”), bazdan (“to flee, to escape, to run away”)
      • Middle Persian:
        Book Pahlavi: wc- (waz-, “to move [intransitive]; to blow (of wind)”)
        Manichaean: wy- (“to move along”)
        • Persian: وزیدن (vazidan) / وز (vaz), بزیدن (bazidan) / بز (baz-, “to blow”) / (*para-) پرواز (parvāz-, “to fly”)[1]
        • Lurish:
          • Northern Luri: ڤاز (vāz, “to jump”)
          • Bakhtiari: ڤاز (vāz)
          • Southern Luri: ڤاز (vāz)
      • Parthian:
        Manichaean: wz- (waz-, “to move swiftly, fly; to travel; to blow (of wind)”)
      • Zazaki: veştene (“to run”), vazdayen (“to run, to flee, to escape”)
      • → Old Armenian: վազեմ (vazem)
      • →⇒? Old Armenian: աւազակ (awazak) (see there for further descendants)

    Derived terms

    1. ^ Cheung, Johnny. 2007. Etymological dictionary of the Iranian verb. Leiden: Brill. p.430.
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