Puhrepuhr (Grandchild) in the Shahpur’s Inscription at Haji-Abad by Comparison with Mesopotamian Texts (original) (raw)

Linguistic, historical, and geographical conditions suggest that a homogeneous communities settled in Eurasian and spoke to Proto-Indo-European language who began to expand around 4000 BCE. Mallory and some scholars believe that the Indo-Europeans homeland was in the arid steppe of the Pont-Caspian region. Having migrated the Indo-Iranian groups, they probably occupied somewhere in central Asia (a geographical parallel to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) from where some Iranians migrated to the Iran’s plateau, while the Indo-Aryans migrated to the subcontinent. Grandson is one of the most controversial words in the Indo-European languages. This word is attested in most of Indo-European languages such as Celtic, Germanic, Italic, Baltic, Slavic, Albanian, Greek, and Indo-Iranian. In the Proto-Indo-European languages *h2nep-ōt uses for ‘male descendant’ and h2nep-t-ih1/2 for ‘female descendant’. Buck believes that PIE *nepot probably consists of a compound of nega...