Where does “بیر” come from?

بیر (Central Kurdish) comes from Arabic بِئْر — well.

بیر (Central Kurdish): memory

Definitions

  1. memory

Ancestry of “بیر”, step by step

بیر traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Arabic بِئْر

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicبِئْرwell

via Proto-Iranian *wiHr̥Háh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Iranian*wiHr̥Háhintelligent
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