Reconstruction:Old Median/farnah

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

From Proto-Iranian *huHarnáh.

Noun

*farnah^[1]

Descendants

Traditionally seen as the source of f- in other Iranian languages, but this is highly uncertain.

→? Old Persian: *farnah
- Middle Persian: 𐫛𐫡𐫍 (prh /⁠farrah⁠/) (< gen.sg. *farnahaʰ)
  - Classical Persian: فره (farrah)
    Dari: فر (farr)
    Iranian Persian: فر (farr)
    Tajik: фар (far)
  - → Arabic: فَخْر (faḵr)
  - → Old Armenian: փառք (pʻaṙkʻ)
  - → Bactrian: φαρο (faro), φαρρο (farro)
  - → Parthian: 𐫛𐫡𐫍 (prh /⁠farrah⁠/)^[2]
→? Proto-Scythian: *fārnē
- Proto-Sarmatian: *fārnē
  - Alanic: *farne
    - Ossetian:
      Digor Ossetian: фарнӕ (farnæ)
      Iron Ossetian: фарн (farn)
- Khotanese: [script needed] (phārre)
→? Sogdian: (/⁠farn⁠/)
Manichaean script: 𐫜𐫡𐫗 (frn)

Old Sogdian script: 𐼔𐼘𐼏 (prn)

Syriac script: ܦܢ (fn)

References

^ Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017), Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 77: “Med. *farnah-ah (gen. < *farnah- > OP °farnah-) > MP farrah ‘fortune, glory, splendour’ (cf. ZMP xwarrah < YAv. xvarənah-).)”
^ Korn, Agnes (2010), “Parthian ž”, in Bulletin of SOAS, volume 73, number 3, Cambridge University Press, →JSTOR, page 422

[Rezai_77a-1] Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017), Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 77: “Med. *farnah-ah (gen. < *farnah- > OP °farnah-) > MP farrah ‘fortune, glory, splendour’ (cf. ZMP xwarrah < YAv. xvarənah-).)”

[2] Korn, Agnes (2010), “Parthian ž”, in Bulletin of SOAS, volume 73, number 3, Cambridge University Press, →JSTOR, page 422

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