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Where does “zādan” come from?

zādan (Middle Persian) comes from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

Ancestry of “zādan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth
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