Where does “سپاس” come from?

سپاس (Central Kurdish) comes from Proto-Iranian spácati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian spáćati, from Proto-Indo-European speḱ- — to see, to look, to observe.

سپاس (Central Kurdish): API; thanks, thank you; thanks

Definitions

  1. API; thanks, thank you; thanks

Ancestry of “سپاس”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Iranianspácati—
2Proto-Indo-Iranianspáćati—
3Proto-Indo-Europeanspeḱ-to see, to look, to observe
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speḱ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian spáćati →Every word from Proto-Iranian spácati →