Reconstruction:Old Persian/madu

This Old Persian 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.

Old Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *mádu.

Noun

*madu

1. wine

Descendants

• Middle Persian: (/⁠may⁠/)

  Manichaean script: 𐫖𐫏 (my)

  Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (HS), [Book Pahlavi needed] (mdy)

  Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭧𐭮 (HS)

  • Classical Persian: می (may, “wine”)
    • Dari: می (may)
    • Iranian Persian: می (mey)
    • Tajik: май (may)
    • → Azerbaijani:

      Arabic script: مئی (mey)

      Latin script: mey

    • Kurdish:

      → Central Kurdish: مەی (mey)

      → Northern Kurdish: mey

    • → Pashto: می (may)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: می (may),
      • Turkish: mey
    • → Urdu: مے (mai)
    • → Uzbek: may