Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/bʰāgás

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 *bʰeh₂g-ó-s, from *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”) +‎ *-ós.

Noun

*bʰāgás m

Declension

masculine a-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bʰāgás	*bʰāgā́(w)	*bʰāgā́s(as)
vocative	*bʰā́ga	*bʰā́gā(w)	*bʰā́gās(as)
accusative	*bʰāgám	*bʰāgā́(w)	*bʰāgā́ns
instrumental	*bʰāgáH	*bʰāgáybʰyā(m)	*bʰāgā́yš
ablative	*bʰāgā́t	*bʰāgáybʰyā(m)	*bʰāgáybʰyas
dative	*bʰāgā́y	*bʰāgáybʰyā(m)	*bʰāgáybʰyas
genitive	*bʰāgásya	*bʰāgáyās	*bʰāgā́naHam
locative	*bʰāgáy	*bʰāgáyaw	*bʰāgáyšu

Related terms

*bʰagás
*bʰaHǰáyati
*bʰaktás
*bʰaktíš
*bʰakšás
*bʰakšáyati
*bʰáǰati

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *bʰāgás
- Sanskrit: भाग (bhāgá) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *bāgáh (“part; garden”)^[1]^[2]
- Avestan: 𐬠𐬁𐬔𐬀 (bāga, “part”)
- Baluchi: باگ (bág)
- Mazanderani: [script needed] (bāq)
- Old Persian: *bāgah
  - Middle Persian:
    - Manichaean script: 𐫁𐫀𐫇 (bʾw /⁠bāw⁠/)
    - Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (bʾg /⁠bāɣ⁠/)
    - > Persian: باغ (bâġ) (inherited) (see there for further descendants)
    - → Classical Syriac: ܒܓܐ (bāḡā, “garden”)
    - → Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡀࡂࡀ (baga, “garden”)
  - → Aramaic:
    Imperial Aramaic: 𐡁𐡂 (bg, “agricultural domain, fief”)
    Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: באגא (“outskirts of a town”)
- Sogdian: (/⁠βāɣ⁠/)
  - Manichaean script: 𐫁𐫀𐫄 (bʾɣ)
  - Syriac script: ܭܐܮ (βʾɣ)

References

^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 51
^ Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎^[1], Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 80: “*bágas”

[1] Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 51

[2] Novák, Ľubomír (2013) Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD dissertation)‎^[1], Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, filozofická fakulta, page 80: “*bágas”

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