Cognate Set 3219 – Meaning: meat

IE-CoR reference form:
*pitu-
IE-CoR reference language:
Proto-Indo-European
Ideophonic:
no
Parallel derivation:
no
Justification:
Iranic lexemes continuing a PIE stem *pitu- ~ *pei̯tu- (cf. EWAia II:130 s.v. Vedic pitú- 'food, solid food).
Found in clades:
Iranic
Revised by:
Matthew Scarborough
Found in 1 clade by 4 lexemes.
Language Lexeme Native script Phonetic Phonemic Notes
73   Ossetic: Digor fid фид fid fid
66   Middle Persian pīt pyt piːt piːt ZP p(y)t
55   Parthian pid pyd pɪd pid "flesh, meat"
46   Avestan: Younger pitu 𐬞𐬌𐬙𐬎 pitu Bartholomae (1904: 905) translates "(Fleisch)speise". However, its attestations in the Nerangistan and the Frahang ī ōīm (F 463) suggest the meaning "meat". The attestation in the Frahang ī ōīm (Klingenschmitt 1968: 76) of *kǝrǝfma- is uncertain.There is also gauu-, cf. Bartholomae (1904: 507) under II.2 „das was das Rind liefert, Fleisch“.
References
  • Belyaev, Oleg:
    Ossetic Digor: fid 'meat' goes back to PIr. *pitu‑ 'food', cf. MP pit 'meat', Avestan pitu‑ 'food, meat'. The word also exists in Iron as fəd, but it is not the Swadesh term (more like 'flesh' than 'meat').
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred: II:130
    Cf. s.v. Ved. pitú- 'Nahrung, feste Speise' from PIE *pitu-/*pei̯tu-, cf. OIr. ith 'cereal', Lith. piẽtūs 'lunch, lunchtime', and probably also Arm. hiwt 'juice, substance, stuff'.