Definitions
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- proper noun The hypothetical
proto-language reconstructed by comparative method, from which all theIranian languagesdescended . - adjective Of or pertaining to Proto-Iranian language or people who spoke it.
- noun Speaker of Proto-Iranian language.
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Examples
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This would really make sense and go with Hesychius' testimony but for one thing, the inclusion of Iranian data like Modern Persian kahra- 'kid', Auramani kawrā 'sheep', Saka Khotanese kaura-, kám̥ra- 'sheep' which has been attributed to a Proto-Iranian reconstruction, *kafra-.
Manly goats 2010
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Aspand is from the Proto-Iranian *svanta (PIE *swentos) via a transparent series of sound changes (and a transparent borrowing from Median, which happened constantly in Old Persian).
Death and daffodils 2010
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In December 2007, he suggested that archaeologists use the term Proto-Iranian instead of Proto-Elamite for the script found at Jiroft.
Jiroft Back in the News Jan 2008
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In December 2007, he suggested that archaeologists use the term Proto-Iranian instead of Proto-Elamite for the script found at Jiroft.
Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008
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Kartir's inscriptions the high priest includes the same regions in his list of provinces of the antonymic Proto-Iranian term Aryānām, (Land) of the (Iranian) Aryas.
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Kartir's inscriptions the high priest includes the same regions in his list of provinces of the antonymic Proto-Iranian term Aryānām, (Land) of the (Iranian) Aryas.
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