Reconstruction:Old Persian/baivaram

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

From Proto-Iranian *baywáram, accusative of *baywā́.

Noun

*baivaram

1. myriad, ten thousand

Derived terms

• *baivarpatiš
  • → Ancient Greek: μυριάρχης (muriárkhēs) (calque) [c. 430–354 BCE, Xenophon]
    • → English: myriarch

Descendants

• Middle Persian:

  Manichaean script: 𐫁𐫏𐫇𐫡 (bywr /⁠bēwar⁠/)

  Book Pahlavi script: [Term?] (/⁠bēwar⁠/)

  Pazend script: 𐬠𐬀𐬈𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭 (baeuuar /⁠baevar⁠/)

  • Classical Persian: بیوَر (bēwar), بیوَار (bēwār)
    • Iranian Persian: بیور (bivar), بیوار (bivâr)
    • Tajik: бевар (bevar)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: بیور (bîver), بیوار (bîvâr)