< Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian

Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/aštamás

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

An Indo-Iranian innovation; modelled after other ordinal adjectives like *daćamás; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Adjective

*aštamás[1][2]

  1. eighth

Descendants
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *aṣṭamás
    • Sanskrit: अष्टम (aṣṭamá) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Iranian: *aštamáh

References
  1. Schmitt, Rüdiger (2017–2018) “Chapter XVII: Indo-Iranian”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The lexicon of Indo-Iranian, page 1954: “*aštama-”
  2. Gvozdanovic, Jadranka (1991) Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, page 323
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.