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Reconstruction:Old Persian/spantah

 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

Presumably borrowed from either Old Median *spantah or Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬧𐬙𐬀 (spəṇta),[1] both from Proto-Iranian *cwantáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwantás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen-tó-s, from *ḱwen- (“holy, sacred”) +‎ *-tós.

Adjective edit

*spantah

  1. beneficent, sacred

Descendants edit

  • Middle Persian: *spand

References edit

  1. ^ Gignoux, Philippe (1986) Noms propres sassanides en moyen-perse épigraphique [Sasanian proper names in Inscriptional Middle Persian] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band II, Faszikel 2) (in French), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 159
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