Reconstruction:Old Median/Spitakah

This Old Median 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 Median

Etymology

From *spitah (“white, pure”) +‎ *-kah (hypocoristic suffix).^[1]

Proper noun

*Spitakah m^[2]

a male given name

Descendants

→ Ancient Greek: Σπιτάκης (Spitákēs)
→ Aramaic:
Imperial Aramaic: 𐡎𐡐𐡉𐡕𐡊 (spytk)

References

^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1602. *Spitaka-”, 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 314
^ Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Σπιτάκης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 309b

[1] Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1602. *Spitaka-”, 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 314

[2] Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Σπιτάκης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 309b

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