𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎢𐏁𐎣𐏃𐎹𐎠

Old Persian

Etymology

Literally means "Greeks who are of the Mainland", from 𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠 (y-u-n-a /⁠Yaunā⁠/, “Greek”) + 𐎫𐎹𐎡𐎹 (t-y-i-y /⁠tayaiy⁠/, “who, which”) + 𐎢𐏁𐎣𐏃𐎹𐎠 (u-š-k-h-y-a /⁠uškahyā⁠/, “on the land”).

Compare:

• 𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎱𐎼𐎭𐎼𐎹 (Yaunā tayaiy paradraya, literally “Greeks who are across the Sea”)
• n𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎭𐎼𐎹𐏃𐎹𐎠 (Yaunā tayaiy drayahyā, literally “Greeks who are by the Sea”)
• 𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎣𐎲𐎼𐎠 (Yaunā takabarā, literally “Greeks who wear shield-like hats”)

Proper noun

𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎢𐏁𐎣𐏃𐎹𐎠 (Yaunā tayaiy uškahyā)

1. A group of Greeks
   • DPe 11-15

     𐏐 𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎠𐎹 𐏐 𐎠𐎰𐎢𐎼𐎠 𐏐 𐎸𐎢𐎭𐎼𐎠𐎹𐎠
     𐏐 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 𐏐 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 𐏐 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭 𐏐 𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠
     𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎢𐏁𐎣𐏃𐎹𐎠 𐏐 𐎢𐎫𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎡𐎹
     𐏐 𐎭𐎼𐎹𐏃𐎹𐎠 𐏐 𐎢𐎫𐎠 𐏐 𐎭𐏃𐎹𐎠𐎺 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎠
     𐏐 𐎱𐎼 𐏐 𐎭𐎼𐎹 𐏐 𐎠𐎿𐎥𐎼𐎫 𐏐 𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 𐏐 𐏀𐎼𐎣

     : a-r-b-a-y : a-θ-u-r-a : mu-u-d-r-a-y-a
     : a-r-mi-i-n : k-t-p-tu-u-k : s-p-r-d : y-u-n-a
     : t-y-i-y : u-š-k-h-y-a : u-t-a : t-y-i-y
     : d-r-y-h-y-a : u-t-a : d-h-y-a-v : t-y-a
     : p-r : d-r-y : a-s-g-r-t : p-r-θ-v : z-r-k

     /: Arabāya : Aθurā : Mudrāyā
     : Armina : Katpatuka : Sparda : Yaunā
     : tayaiy : uškahyā : utā : tayaiy
      : drayahyā : utā : dahyāva : tyā
     : para : draya : Asagarta : Parθava : Zraⁿka/

     
     [...] Arabia, Assyria, Egypt,
     Armenia, Cappadocia, Lydia, the Greeks
     who are of the Mainland and who
     are by the Sea, and the Countries which are
     across the Sea, Sagartia, Parthia, Drangiana, [...]

References

• Text: DPe , Part No. 28, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien