dywʾl
Middle Persian
editEtymology
editFrom Old Persian 𐎮𐎡𐎭𐎠 (didā-, “wall, fortress”) + *-wāra.[1] The first part is from Proto-Iranian *dáyjah, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéyǵʰ-o-s (“to form, knead”),[2] and the second part is from Proto-Iranian *wāra-.
Noun
editdywʾl • (dēwār)
Descendants
edit- Classical Persian: دیوَار (dēwār)
References
edit- ^ Garnik Asatrian (2017) “SWIran. *didā- “fortress, walled residence” in Iranian Toponymy”, in Iran and the Caucasus[1], volume 21, Brill, page 389
- ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 315