User:Alcaios/Indo-Iranian

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Deities
Proto-Indo-Iranian		Vedic	Avestan
	solar deity	Surya	Hvare(-khshaeta)	Cognate to Greek Helios, Roman Sol, and Germanic Sól.
*Saraswṇtī		Sarasvati, Saraswati	Haraxvaitī	The Sanskrit names refer to a deified river and its goddess. The Avestan term refers to a geographical region rich in waters (see Anahita).^[1]
	'bird of prey; an eagle'	śyená-^[2]	(mərəγō) Saēnō	The Avestan word is at the source of the name of mythical bird sēnmurw, later Simurgh. The Iranian mərəγō is cognate to Indic mr̥gá-, relating to a wild animal. Possible loanwords.^[3]
*mátsyas	'fish'	mátsya-^[4]	masiia-	In Vedic tradition, the name refers to an avatar of Vishnu, and to a tribe/group. Possible loanword.^[5]

^ Stüber, Karin. “Zu Bedeutung Und Etymologie von Altindisch Sáras-, Iranisch *harah- Und Griechisch Ἕλος.” Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics, vol. 113, no. 1/2, 2000, pp. 132–42. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41289024. Accessed 20 Jan. 2023.
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996). “śyená-”. In: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] Volume II. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1996. p. 662. (In German)
^ Schmitt, Rüdiger. "113. The lexicon of Indo-Iranian". In: Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics Volume 3. Edited by Jared Klein, Brian Joseph and Matthias Fritz. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. pp. 1948-1949. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110542431-034
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996). Entry “mátsya-”. In: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] Volume II. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1996. pp. 297-298. (In German)
^ Schmitt, Rüdiger. "113. The lexicon of Indo-Iranian". In: Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics Volume 3. Edited by Jared Klein, Brian Joseph and Matthias Fritz. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. p. 1949. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110542431-034