Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Scythian *Jīvaka,[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (to live). Cognate with Middle Persian *zhīwak and its ancestor Old Persian *jīvaka.

Proper noun

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Ζευάκος (Zeuákosm (genitive Ζευάκου); third declension

  1. a male given name from Scythian: Zeuacus

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Greek: Ζευάκος (Zevákos)
  • Latin: Zeuacus

References

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  1. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.902. *Jīvaka-”, 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 221

Further reading

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  • Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Ζευάκος”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 385