pnyl

Middle Persian

Etymology

Ultimately from the Proto-Iranian verbal base *nai- : *ni- (to churn butter) with the preverb *pati-. For this root see Cheung, who reconstructs *naiH-.

Compare Baluchi پنیر (panēr), Sarikoli [script needed] (paner), Central Kurdish پەنێر (penêr), Southern Kurdish پەنێر (penêr), Northern Kurdish penîr, Pashto پنير (panír) and the Old Armenian loanword պանիր (panir).

Noun

pnyl (panīr)

  1. (Book Pahlavi) cheese

Descendants

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “panīr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 183, page 289
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 221
  • Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 184b
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279
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