Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/sasás

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 earlier *sHasás, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₁es-ó-s, from *seh₁- (“to sow”).

Noun

*sasás m^[1]

corn, herb, grass

Declension

masculine a-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sasás	*sasā́(w)	*sasā́s(as)
vocative	*sása	*sásā(w)	*sásās(as)
accusative	*sasám	*sasā́(w)	*sasā́ns
instrumental	*sasáH	*sasáybʰyā(m)	*sasā́yš
ablative	*sasā́t	*sasáybʰyā(m)	*sasáybʰyas
dative	*sasā́y	*sasáybʰyā(m)	*sasáybʰyas
genitive	*sasásya	*sasáyās	*sasā́naHam
locative	*sasáy	*sasáyaw	*sasáyšu

Derived terms

*sasyás (“crop, grain, fruit”)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *sasyás^[2]
  - Sanskrit: सस्य (sasyá)
- Proto-Iranian: *hahyáh^[2]
  - Younger Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬌𐬀 (hahiia)
    - ⇒ Younger Avestan: 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌𐬱⸱𐬵𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬌𐬀 (paⁱtiš.hahiia, “harvest festival”)
  - Middle Persian:
    Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾḤ /⁠hah⁠/, “pertaining to grain, harvest”)

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *sasás
- Sanskrit: सस (sasá)
  - Magadhi Prakrit:
    - Assamese: সাহ (xah, “crops”)
    - Odia: ସସ (sasa, “kernel”)

References

^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “sasá”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000–) “*haha-, *hahi̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 320-321

[1] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “sasá”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University

[ESIJa-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000–) “*haha-, *hahi̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 320-321

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