Where does “سوم” come from?

سوم (Persian) comes from Persian سه, from Old Persian 𐏂, from Proto-Iranian θráyah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

سوم (Persian): third

Definitions

  1. third

Ancestry of “سوم”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PersianسهAPI •; three; black
2Old Persian𐏂The thirty-fifth letter of the Old Persian cuneiform script
3Proto-Iranianθráyahthree
4Proto-Indo-Iraniantráyasthree
5Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “سوم”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian tráyas →Every word from Proto-Iranian θráyah →