Re: Indo-Iranian 'one' (was: beyond langauges)

From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 58191
Date: 2008-04-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

> If proto-Iranian is *aiwas and not *aika, then why
> does Persian have yek? (Zomplist has yak, but the
> Persians I've known all said "yek). Were there
> competing forms in proto-iranian?


The Iranian forms ending in -k, -kV (Middle Persian 'ywky, e_wak,
Parthian 'ywg, e_wag, Bactrian Iota-Omega-Gamma-Omicron, New Persian
yak) are from the suffixed Proto-Iranian form *aiua-ka-.

Best,
Francesco