Word form
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phú |
LWT meaning(s) |
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Word meaning
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earth, soil; ground, earth floor; land; country; clay; [PL:] field |
Czech translation
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země ‘earth, land, country’, půda ‘soil’; hlína ‘clay’; pole ‘field’ |
Hungarian translation
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föld ‘earth, land, field’, colloquially also ‘clay’; ország ‘country’; agyag ‘clay’; mező ‘field’ |
Grammatical info
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noun, feminine; oblique stem phuv-ja- |
Comments on word
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plural phuvja ‘field(s)’ |
Analyzability
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unanalyzable |
Age
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Proto-Indo-Iranian [9]
(-2500–-2000)
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Early Romani reconstruction
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*phuv ‘earth, land’
cf. *alindž ‘field’ (no etymology)
cf. *them ‘country’ (< Armenian < Greek) |
Boretzky & Igla's etymology
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239: < OIA bhūmi-; cf. Hindi bhū |
Mānušs et al. etymology
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108: < OIA bhūmi F ‘earth; land’ |
Vekerdi's etymology
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132: < Skr. bhūmi [Turner] |
Turner's etymology
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9557 |
Mayrhofer's etymology
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II, 268: Indo-Iranian |