Where does “mʾhyk'” come from?

mʾhyk' (Middle Persian) comes from Proto-Iranian mácyah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian mátsyas — fish.

Ancestry of “mʾhyk'”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Iranianmácyah—
2Proto-Indo-Iranianmátsyasfish

Words derived from “mʾhyk'”

Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian mátsyas →Every word from Proto-Iranian mácyah →