Cognate Set 60 – Meaning: hunt
- IE-CoR reference form:
- *skar-
- IE-CoR reference language:
- Proto-Iranic
- Ideophonic:
- no
- Parallel derivation:
- no
- Justification:
- Iranic lexemes continuing primary verbal derivatives and light-verb constructions continuing derivatives of Proto-Iranic *skar- 'to pursue, drive'; no known etymology outside of Iranic (Cheung 2007:346).
- Found in clades:
- Iranic
- Revised by:
- Matthew Scarborough
Found in 1 clade by 8 lexemes.
- References
- Cheung, Johnny: 346
S.v. Proto-Iranic *skar- 'to pursue, drive, look for (cattle)', no certain cognates outside of Iranic. Cf. also Middle Persian šklk /škarag/ '(bird of) prey', (+ *u̯i-) wškl /wiškar/ 'hunting-ground, wilderness'.