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  • adir "fire": from PIE base *āter- "fire."
Cognates: cf. Avestan ātar-, Old Persian ātarş, Sanskrit atharvan, Latin āter, Armenian airel, Irish áith, Welsh odyn, Umbrian atru "fire."
English Cognate: atrium (from Latin), atrocity (from Latin)
Source: Nişanyan, Watkins p.5


  • amnan, umnun "summer": from PIE base *sem- "half, season."
Cognates: cf. Sanskrit sama "season, half-year," Avestan hama "in summer," Armenian amarn "summer," Old Irish sam, O.Welsh ham, Welsh haf "summer."
English Cognate: summer
Source: Etymonline, Watkins p.75


  • ameyîş, umeyış "come": from PIE base *gwem- "to go, come."
Cognates: cf. Avestan jamaiti "goes," Sanskrit. gamati "he goes," Tocharian kakmu "come," Lith. gemu "to be born," Greek bainein "to go, walk, step," Latin venire "to come." (see also "gam" entry.)
English Cognate: come
Not: Related to the word "gam."
Source: Cheung p.100, Etymonline, Watkins p.33


  • amaritiş "count": from PIE base *(s)mer- "to remember."
Cognates: cf. Sanskrit smar, Avestan (š)mar "to remember," Old High German mornen, Gothic maurnan "to mourn," Old Norse morna "to pine away."
English Cognate: mourn, memory (from Latin), remember (from Latin), memorandum (from Latin)
Source: Etymonline, Cheung p.138, Watkins p.80


  • asmen, asmîn "sky": from PIE base *ekmon- "stone."
Cognates: cf. Avestan asman, Sanskrit. aśman, Greek akmōn, Lithuanian akmuo, Latvian akmens, Russian kamen', Polish kamień, Hittite aku, Gaulish acaunum "stone."
English Cognate: hammer
Source: Etymonline, Watkins p.2


  • aste, este "bone": from PIE base *ast/*ost- "bone."
Cognates: cf. Avestan ascu- "shinbone," Sanskrit asthi, Hittite hashtai-, Greek osteon Armenian oskr "bone;" Greek ostrakon "oyster, shell;" Welsh asgwrn "bone."
English Cognate: ossify (from Latin), osseous (from Greek), oyster (from Greek), ostracize (from Greek), osteology (from Greek)
Source: Etymonline, Watkins p.61


  • asnaw "swim": from PIE base *(s)na- "to swim, to flow."
Cognates: cf. Sanskrit snati "bathes," Latin nare "to swim," Armenian nay "wet, liquid," Greek notios "damp, moist," nao "I flow;" Middle Irish snaim "I swim."
English Cognate: natatorium
Source: Etymonline, Cheung p.338, Watkins p.81


  • astor, astuer "horse": from PIE base *ekwo- "horse."
Cognates: cf. Avestan asva- Sanskrit açva- Greek hippos, Latin equus, Old Irish ech, Gothic aihwa-, Hittite aśuwas, Lithuanian ashva, Armenian ēš, Welsh ebol, Irish each, Thracian esvas, Lycian esbe "horse."
English Cognate: N/A (Old English eoh, replaced by horse), hippodrome (from Greek), equine (from Latin),
Source: Etymonline, Watkins p.23
Note: The word "astor" has two parts asa + tere. The "asa" part comes from the PIE *ekwo-, "ter" parts comes from "-tere", the same suffix that creates comparatives in Zazaki like gırd and gırder. Astor originally means "more or less a horse" used for donkey word. Later in Zazaki, it somehow becomes the name for horse. In Sogdian, we have a similar construction for mule. It is "heretere" (here+ tere), means more or less a donkey.


  • aster "star": from PIE base *ster- "star."
Cognates: cf. Sanskrit. star-, Hittite shittar, Greek aster, astron, Latin stella, Breton sterenn, Welsh seren, Old Norse stjarna, Old Frisian stera, Dutch ster, Old High German sterro, German stern, Gothic stairno "star."
English Cognate: star, stellar (from Latin), asterisk (from Greek), asteroid (from Greek), astronot (from Greek), astronomy (from Greek), astrology (from Greek), Esther (from Old Persian), disaster (from Middle French)
Source: Etymonline, Watkins p.86


  • awk, awik "water": from PIE base ap- "water" (not from PIE base *akwa- "water.")
Cognates: cf. Sanskrit. ap, Avestan ap, Old Persian ap, New persian ab, Kurdish aw "water."
Source:Watkins p.4


Çavkanî
  • Cheung, Johnny. Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb. Boston: Brill. 2007.
  • Etymonline. Online English Etymology Dictionary. <etymonline.com> by Douglas Harper.
  • Fortson, Benjamin W. Indo-European Language and Culture. Blackwell Publishing. 2004.
  • Nisanyan, Sevan. Etymological Dictionary of Modern Turkish. Adam Y. Istanbul 2007.
  • Watkins, Calvert. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Second Ed. Houghton Publishing. USA 2007.