Pêvek:Etîmolojiya peyvên zazakî/R

• raşt: from PIE base *reg- "move in a straight line."

Cognates: cf. Avestan razeyeiti "directs," Avestan and Old Persian rasta- "straight," Old Persian aršta- "rectitude," Sanskrit raj- "a king, a leader;" Greek orektos "stretched out, upright;" Latin rectus "straight, right;" Old Irish recht "law," Welsh rhaith, Breton reiz "just, righteous, wise," Lithuanian teisus "right, true," Greek dikaios "just," Gothic reiks "a leader;" Old English rice "kingdom," -ric "king," rice "rich, powerful," riht "correct;" Gothic raihts, Old High German recht, Old Swedish reht, Old Norse rettr "correct" Old High German reht, German recht, Old Norse rettr, Gothic raihts "just, good, fair, proper, fitting, straight."

English Cognate: right, rich, regal (from Latin), royal (from Latin), rex (from Latin), rectitude (from Latin), rectify (from Latin), rectangular (from Latin), regime (from French), regular (from Old French), regulation (from Old French), regent (from Old French), rule (from Old French), rector (from Latin), direct (from Latin) etc...

Source: Etymonline, Nişanyan, Cheung

• ro: from PIE base *sreu- "to flow."

Cognates: cf. Avestan thraotah-, raonam "stream, river;" Old Persian rauta "river," Sanskrit sravati "flows," srotah "stream;" Greek rheos "a flowing, stream;" Old Irish sruaim, Irish sruth "stream, river;" Welsh ffrwd "stream;" Lithuanian sraveti "to trickle, ooze;" Old Norse straumr, Old English stream Danish strøm, Swedish ström, Norwegian straum, Old Frisian stram, Dutch stroom, Old High German stroum, German strom "current, river."

English Cognate: stream, rheum (from Greek)

Source: Etymonline, Cheung

• roc, ruej, ruz: from PIE base *leuk- "light, brightness."

Cognates: cf. raoxšna- "shining, bright" Sanskrit rocate "shines;" Armenian lois "light," lusin "moon;" Greek leukos "bright, shining, white;" Latin lucere "to shine," lux "light," lucidus "clear;" Lithuanian laukas "pale;" Welsh llug "gleam, glimmer;" Old Irish loche "lightning," luchair "brightness;" Hittite lukezi "is bright" Old Frisian liacht, Middle Dutch lucht, German Licht "light."

English Cognate: light

Source: Etymonline, Cheung, Nişanyan

• roşt: from PIE base *leuk- "light, brightness."

Please see the "roc" entry.

Çavkanî

• Cheung, Johnny. Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb. Boston: Brill. 2007.
• Etymonline. Online English Etymology Dictionary. <etymonline.com> by Douglas Harper.
• Fortson, Benjamin W. Indo-European Language and Culture. Blackwell Publishing. 2004.
• Nisanyan, Sevan. Etymological Dictionary of Modern Turkish. Adam Y. Istanbul 2007.
• Watkins, Calvert. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Second Ed. Houghton Publishing. USA 2007.