Old Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Iranian *Habí, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Habʰi (compare Sanskrit अभि (abhí, towards, over, upon)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (round about, around).

Compare Latin ambi-, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, for, about, around), Old High German umbi (around), Old Irish imb (around).

Prefix edit

𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy)[1]

  1. towards
  2. against
  3. upon

Preposition edit

𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy)

  1. towards
  2. against
  3. upon

References edit

  1. ^ Gindro, S. with Scarlata, S. and Widmer, P. (2013) “Old Persian Corpus”, in TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien[1], section 11