Ἀγάθυρσοι
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Proto-Scythian with no clear etymology. Suggested be from Proto-Iranian *háxā (“friend”), however the expected outcome in Proto-Scythian would be *haxā, + *θrauš- ~ *θruš- (“prospering”), modified by θύρσος (thúrsos, “thyrsus, the composite vegetal wand of Bacchus”) “via an association of Scythians peoples with Bacchic rites”, however no Iranian cognate meaning “prospering” is given.[1]
Proper noun edit
Ἀγάθυρσοι • (Agáthursoi) m (genitive Ἀγαθύρσων); second declension
References edit
- ^ Martin Schwartz, Alexis Manaster Ramer (2019) “Some Interlinguistic Iranian Conundrums”, in Almut Hintze, Desmond Durkin, Claudius Naumann, editors, A Thousand Judgements: Festschrift for Maria Macuch, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 3
Further reading edit
- Ἀγάθυρσοι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette