Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/čálHati

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 *kʷélh₁-e-ti, from *kʷelh₁- (“to move”).^[1]

Verb

*čálHati^[2]

to move, walk
to wander

Descendants

Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ćálHati
- Sanskrit: चरति (cárati), चलति (cálati) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Iranian: *čárHati
- Central Iranian:
  - Avestan: 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬁𐬥𐬍 (carānī, “to move, approach”, 1sg.subj.)
- Northeastern Iranian:
  - Digor Ossetian: цӕрун (cærun, “to live”)
  - Iron Ossetian: цӕрын (cæryn, “to live”)
- Southeastern Iranian:
  - Pashto: څرېدل (caredal, “to pasture, graze”)
- Northwestern Iranian:
  - Kurdish:
    - Northern Kurdish: çerîn (“to graze”)
    - Central Kurdish: چەرین (çerîn)
  - Zazaki: çerayen
- Southwestern Iranian:
  - Old Persian: [script needed] (caratiy)
    - Middle Persian: [script needed] (carīdan), [script needed] (carag, “pasture, grazing; flock”)
    - Persian: چریدن (čaridan, “to graze”)
      - Tajik: чаридан (čaridan)
    - Lurish:
      - Northern Luri: قۏئڵ (qöeł, “foot, wheel”)
        Nahavandi: قول (qol)
      - Bakhtiari: گںل (gal, “foot”)

References

^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “CAR¹”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 534-535
^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “carᶦ {1}”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 118: “Proto-Indo-Iranian: čáRH-”

[1] Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “CAR¹”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 534-535

[2] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “carᶦ {1}”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 118: “Proto-Indo-Iranian: čáRH-”

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