Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-Iranian/bálam

What is your source for the Avestan ? I can't find mention of it anywhere, only, , and mean "strong". —Aryamanarora (मुझसे बात करो) 22:33, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah... probably not the best idea to pull straight from those tables yet. Some stuff is reconstructed. Iranian balam was based on it being found in Sogdian as pr'n, but it turns out to have just been a transcription of Sanskrit using the Sogdian alphabet. --Victar (talk) 03:19, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm, but the PII entry can remain because of the PIE correspondence right? —Aryamanarora (मुझसे बात करो) 22:57, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't see why not. I also added a possible Kurdish descendant. --Victar (talk) 23:02, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Possible Derivatives in Sinhalese and Tamil
There's this word "බලය" meaning power/strength in Sinhalese. I'm not sure where exactly it comes from but it's possible that it came from Sanskrit or Pali because both the languages heavily influenced in forming Sinhalese. I think there's this term "balam" or "palam" (not sure how to pronounce that) in Tamil for power/strength. So, it's possible that it came into Sinhalese from Tamil or vice versa.

I also want to say that Sanskrit, Pali, Sinhalese, and Tamil were being used at the same time in Sri Lanka in the past, Sanskrit being more common only among scholars and nobles and also a Religious language of both Buddhism and Hinduism, Pali being also used to a same degree but may be a little more common as it's the original language of Tripitaka and most of Buddhist mantras/prayers are recited in Pali, and Sinhalese and Tamil being the everyone's common tongue.

So if anyone who's good at linguistics, be kind to add these to the Wikionary!
 * I have added the Tamil and Sinhala words. Sinhala is a direct descendant of Sanskrit through Elu Prakrit, and in this case the word is from there, not from Pali. The Tamil is borrowed from Sanskrit. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 16:57, 21 April 2018 (UTC)