Where does “ماسیگر” come from?

ماسیگر (Central Kurdish) comes from Central Kurdish ماسی, from Proto-Iranian mácyah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian mátsyas — fish.

ماسیگر (Central Kurdish): fisherman

Definitions

  1. fisherman

Ancestry of “ماسیگر”, step by step

ماسیگر traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Central Kurdish ماسی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Central Kurdishماسیfish
2Proto-Iranianmácyah—
3Proto-Indo-Iranianmátsyasfish

via Persian ـگر

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianـگر-er

Words derived from “ماسیگر”

Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian mátsyas →Every word from Proto-Iranian mácyah →Every word from Central Kurdish ماسی →