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Reconstruction:Old Median/
br̥zans
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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.
Contents
1
Old Median
1.1
Etymology
1.2
Adjective
1.2.1
Descendants
1.3
References
Old Median
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Etymology
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From
Proto-Iranian
*br̥jáns
.
Adjective
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*br̥zans
[1]
high
,
exalted
Descendants
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Middle Median:
*buland
Kermanic:
بلن
(
bälan, bilän, bulän, bälän
)
,
بلند
(
bælænd, bæland
)
;
بِلن
(
bilän
)
;
بُلند
(
bulænd, buland
)
;
بلیند
(
bilēnd
)
;
بُلن
(
bulän
)
Sivandi:
buland
References
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^
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