Τιραῖος
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Persian *Tīrayah.[1][2]
Proper noun
[edit]Τιραῖος • (Tiraîos) m (genitive Τιραίου); second declension
- a male given name, Tiraeus, from Old Persian, name of two kings of Characene
Inflection
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*tīraya-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 237
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1706. *Tīraya-”, 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 326: “326”
Further reading
[edit]- Τιραῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- Ancient Greek terms borrowed from Old Persian
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Old Persian
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek given names
- Ancient Greek male given names
- Ancient Greek male given names from Old Persian