The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*weǵ-
- Proto-Indo-Iranian · derived from*wáȷ́rakas“endowed with strength”
- Old Persian · derived from𐎺𐏀𐎼𐎣“great, large”
- Middle Persian · derived from𐭥𐭰𐭥𐭫𐭢
- Classical Persian · derived fromبُزُرْگ
- Urdu · borrowed fromبُزُرْگ
- Hindi · borrowed fromबुज़ुर्ग
- English todaybuzurg
Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi बुज़ुर्ग (buzurg) / Urdu بُزُرْگ (buzurg), from Classical Persian بُزُرْگ (buzurg), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭰𐭥𐭫𐭢 (wazurg, wuzurg), from Old Persian 𐎺𐏀𐎼𐎣 (vazạrka, “great, large”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáȷ́rakas (“endowed with strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-. Doublet of vajra and waker. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*weǵ- all →
waitvigilvigour
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.