pcyn'

Etymology
According to Cheung, composed of (see 🇨🇬) with the verbal root  /. The formation is similar to 🇨🇬. Nyberg specifically reconstructs the development as ←  ←.

On the other hand, according to Müller, and following him Hübschmann, Ačaṙyan and Olsen, the word is going back to, composed of the preverb  and the verbal root. Typologically compare 🇨🇬. For the sense development “to gather, collect” → “to read”, Müller compares 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, which is usually derived from 🇨🇬, as well as the following Iranian borrowings: 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  copy