Reconstruction:Old Median/aspāstiš

This Old Median 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.

Old Median

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

From Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš.

Noun

*aspāstiš^[1]

alfalfa

Descendants

Middle Median: *aspast
- Kermanic: اسبس (asbas)
- → Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אספסתא (/⁠aspasta⁠/)
- → Middle Armenian: ասպաստ (aspast)
  - Armenian: ասպաստ (aspast)
- → Hebrew: אספסת (aspéset)
- → Middle Persian:
  Book Pahlavi script: 𐮰𐮽𐮾𐮽𐯁𐮵 (𐮰𐮽𐮾𐮽𐯁𐮵 /⁠aspast⁠/)
  - Classical Persian: اسپست (aspist)
    Sistani: سپست (spest)
    - Iranian Persian: اسپست (espest, aspest), اسپس (espes, aspes), سپست (sepest, sapest), آسپست (âspest)
  - → Burushaski:
    Werchikwar: اِشپِت (iśpít)
  - → Southwestern Fars:
    Burenjani: شِپیت (šipīt)
  - → Gandhari: 𐨀𐨭𐨿𐨤𐨁𐨯𐨿𐨟 (aśpista)
  - → Shina: اِشپیت (išpīt)
- → Classical Syriac: ܐܣܦܣܬܐ (ʾespestā)
  - → Coptic: ⲡⲉⲥⲡⲉⲥⲧⲁ (p-espesta)
    - → Arabic: فِصْفِصَة (fiṣfiṣa), فَصْفَصَة (faṣfaṣa), فِسْفِسَة (fisfisa)
      - → Spanish: alfalfez, alfalfa
        → English: alfalfa
→ Akkadian:
Late Babylonian: 𒊍𒉺𒊍𒋾 (as-pa-as-ti /⁠aspasti⁠/), 𒊍𒉺𒊍𒌈 (as-pa-as-tu₄ /⁠aspastu⁠/), 𒊍𒉺𒊓𒌈 (as-pa-sa-tu₄ /⁠aspasatu⁠/)

References

^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*aspā̆sti-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz

[1] Hinz, Walther (1975) “*aspā̆sti-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz

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