Reconstruction:Old Persian/Pišišyauθnah

This Old Persian 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 Persian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Avestan 𐬞𐬌𐬳𐬌⸱𐬳𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬊𐬚𐬥𐬆𐬨 (piš́i.š́iiaoθnəm),^[1] from unknown element + *čyáwθnam (“deed, work”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čyáwtnam, from *čyáwati (“to move, stir; to undertake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéw-ti, from *kʷyew- (“to set in motion”), + *-tnam.^[2]

Proper noun edit

*Pišišyauθnah m

a male given name

Descendants edit

(taking Old Persian as representative for all Old Iranian):

Middle Persian:
Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (pyššwtn' /⁠Pišišōtan⁠/)
→ Ancient Greek: Πισσούθνης (Pissoúthnēs)
- Greek: Πισσούθνης (Pissoúthnis)
- → Latin: Pissūthnēs

References edit

^ 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, page 467
^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*pišyauθna-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 192

[1] 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, page 467

[2] Hinz, Walther (1975) “*pišyauθna-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 192

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