pnyl

Middle Persian

Etymology

Ultimately from the Proto-Iranian verbal root *nayH- (to churn butter) with the preverb *pati-. The Iranian root is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nayH- (to churn butter), from Proto-Indo-European *neyH- (to make butter, churn). Cognate with Sanskrit (नव-)नीत ((nava-)nīta, fresh butter); outside of Indo-Iranian, cognate with Latvian nīt (used in sviestu nīt (to make butter)) and paniņas (buttermilk).

Noun

pnyl • (panīr)

  1. (Book Pahlavi) cheese

Descendants

  • Classical Persian: پنیر (paner)
  • Kurdish:
  • Old Armenian: պանիր (panir)
  • Mazanderani: پنیر (pannir)
  • Gilaki: پنیر (panir)

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “panīr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 183, page 289
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 221
  • Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 184b
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279
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