ǧāddaẗ جادّة , pl. -āt, ǧawāddᵘ
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√ǦDː (ǦDD)
1a main street; b street – WehrCowan1976
▪ Accord. to Rolland2014a a borrowing from oPers ǧadd ‘road’, related to Av yātem and Skr yātam ‘id.’ – Cf., however, ↗†ǦDː(ǦDD)_8 ‘mark, dividing line’, with the extended meaning of ‘track, beaten way, path, road’ (prob. < ↗†ǦDː(ǦDD)_7 ‘to cut, cut off’, thus orig. a path *“cut” by the feet of men and hoofs of animals)’; if this etymology should be valid, ǧāddaẗ might be genuine Ar (and, hence, a loan in Pers?), a PA I signifying a main axis in a town/city that clearly *‘cuts’, i.e., divides it into distinct sectors/quarters.
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▪ Lane: ‘main part of a road; its middle, or even, part; or the beaten track, or part along which one walks, or travels; the conspicuous part thereof: or a main road that comprises other roads, or tracks, and upon which one must pass’
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▪ No immediate cognates if borrowed from Pers (see above, section CONC). If genuine Ar, cf. ↗†ǦDː(ǦDD)_8 < ↗†ǦDː(ǦDD)_7.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹ǧadd, ↗²ǧadd, ↗ǧidd, ↗ǧadda, and ↗Ǧuddaẗᵘ, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ǦDː(ǦDD).
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