Where does “ھەڕەماسی” come from?

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

ھەڕەماسی (Central Kurdish): sawfish

Definitions

  1. sawfish

Ancestry of “ھەڕەماسی”, step by step

ھەڕەماسی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Central Kurdish ماسی

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

via Central Kurdish ھەڕە

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Central Kurdishھەڕەsaw
2Proto-Indo-Europeansers-to cut off
3Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together
Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian mátsyas →Every word from Proto-Iranian mácyah →Every word from Central Kurdish ماسی →