Reconstruction:Old Persian/Pišišyauθnah
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This Old Persian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Old Persian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Avestan 𐬞𐬌𐬳𐬌⸱𐬳𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬊𐬚𐬥𐬆𐬨 (piš́i.š́iiaoθnəm),[1] from unknown element + *čyáwθnam (“deed, work”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čyáwtnam, from *čyáwati (“to move, stir; to undertake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéw-ti, from *kʷyew- (“to set in motion”), + *-tnam.[2]
Proper noun[edit]
*Pišišyauθnah m
- a male given name
Descendants[edit]
(taking Old Persian as representative for all Old Iranian):
- Middle Persian:
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (pyššwtn' /Pišišōtan/)
- → Ancient Greek: Πισσούθνης (Pissoúthnēs)
- Greek: Πισσούθνης (Pissoúthnis)
- → Latin: Pissūthnēs
Further reading[edit]
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Πισσούθνης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 254a
References[edit]
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) 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 467
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*pišyauθna-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 192