Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Iranian/HwiHćati

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.

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, from *dwih₁ḱm̥ti.

*HwiHćati

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• Proto-Indo-Aryan: *HwiHśatí
  • Sanskrit: विंशति (viṃśatí) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Iranian: *HwiHcati (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Nuristani: *wīcatí
  • Northern Nuristani:
    • Kamkata-viri:

      Kamviri: vićí

      Kativiri: vëćë́

    • Prasuni: źú (< *vźú)
  • Southern Nuristani:
    • Ashkun: viší
    • Tregami: viší (with š from Indo-Aryan)
    • Waigali: viši (with š from Indo-Aryan)

• Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages‎^[1], Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wīst”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Monier Williams (1899) “Proto-Indo-Iranian/HwiHćati”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0953.