Τιραῖος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Persian *Tīraya.[1][2]
Proper noun[edit]
Τιραῖος • (Tiraîos) m (genitive Τιραίου); second declension
- a male given name from Old Persian: Tiraeus, name of two kings of Characene
Inflection[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*tīraya-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 237
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1706. *Tīraya-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 326: “326”
Further reading[edit]
- Τιραῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- Ancient Greek terms borrowed from Old Persian
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Old Persian
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek given names
- Ancient Greek male given names
- Ancient Greek male given names from Old Persian