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Reconstruction:Old Persian/vahištah

 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

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Etymology

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Presumably borrowed from either Old Median *vahištah[1] or Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬀 (vahišta), both from Proto-Iranian *Hwáhištah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwásištʰas.

Adjective

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*vahištah

  1. best

Descendants

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  • Middle Persian: (/⁠wahišt⁠/)
    Manichaean script: 𐫇𐫍𐫏𐫢𐫤 (whyšt), 𐫇𐫍𐫏𐫢𐫎 (whyšṯ)
    Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭥𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭩 (whyšt)

References

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  1. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “*Vahišta-”, in 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 567: “567”
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