Folio § asman
Asman
Himmel
Die Geschichte des Namens
Asman — the word originally named both sky and stone; our ancestors saw the sky as a stone vault. The root is Proto-Iranian asman-. As a name it is the height that holds everything beneath it.
Etymologie
Wurzel: asman · Kurmancî
Asman descends from Proto-Iranian asman-, originally also meaning stone — the ancients understood the sky as a stone vault. The same root yields Persian âsmân and Avestan asman-. The cosmological double sense (sky and stone) is also visible in Sanskrit aśman-.
Namensfamilie
- Asmîn · derived — feminine form
- Stêrk · cognate — star — what fills the asman
Sprachliche Parallelen
- Akash Sanskrit — 'Himmel'
Aktualisiert: 2026-05-02