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

Etymology

Borrowed from Avestan 𐬞𐬌𐬳𐬌⸱𐬳𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬊𐬚𐬥𐬆𐬨 (piš́i.š́iiaoθnəm), 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.

Proper noun

*Pišišyauθnah m

1. a male given name

Descendants

(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

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Πισσούθνης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 254a