Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Ancient Iranian Languages and Culture, University of Tehran

2 Professor, Department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

With the latest theories and findings regarding the historical and comparative linguistics, the rate of accuracy and plausibility of etymologies given for different words in the Iranian languages is improving as the previous suggestions are reviewed or revised and new etymologies proposed. In this research, attempts are made to converge the latest in Indo-European historical-comparative linguistics with Iranian philology and to bridge the gaps between some obscure and problematic Iranian words on the one side and their Indo-European cognates on the other. To do this, a “radix” or primary root, here a Proto-Indo-European *sel-, is reconstructed by a “semanto-cladistic” approach and then a number of secondary roots are hypothesized based on the existing data in Indo-European daughter languages and, in particular, in the Iranian. In the process, some of the etymologies are reviewed and, in some instances, new or alternative ones are proposed.

Keywords

افشار، ایرج، ۱۳۶۸، واژه‌نامة یزدی، تهران، انتشارات فرهنگ ایران‌زمین.
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