𐭥𐭩𐭥𐭥𐭣

Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• 𐭥𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩 (wylwdy), 𐭥𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭣 (wylwd)

Etymology

Uncertain. Usually treated as a hypocoristic formation with the suffix +‎ *-ōē from a name with *wiHrás (“man”), such as Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬭𐬁𐬯𐬞𐬀 (vīrāspa, “He who has men and horses”). In the ŠKZ inscription corresponds to Parthian 𐭅𐭓𐭅𐭃 (wrwd, “Orodes”), so perhaps etymologically should not be separated from it.

Proper noun

𐭥𐭩𐭥𐭥𐭣 • (wyrwd /Wīrōy/ or ʿyʿʿd /Wērōy/) (Inscriptional)

1. a male given name, Wiroy, Weroy, or Viroy

Descendants

• Persian: ویرو (vêrô, viru, character in Vis o Ramin)
  • → Middle Georgian: [script needed] (viro, character in Visramiani)
• → Old Armenian: Վիրոյ (Viroy), Վրոյ (Vroy)

References

• Back, Michael (1999) Die sassanidischen Staatsinschriften (Acta Iranica; 18) (in German), Leiden: Brill, page 273
• Gignoux, Philippe (1972) Glossaire des Inscriptions Pehlevies et Parthes [Glossary of Pahlavi and Parthians Inscriptions] (Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Supplementary Series; 1) (in French), London: Lund Humphries, page 36b
• 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, § 1008, page 183
• Gignoux, Philippe (2003) Noms propres sassanides en moyen-perse épigraphique: Supplément (1986–2001) [Sasanian proper names in Inscriptional Middle Persian: Supplement (1986–2001)] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band II, Faszikel 3)‎^[1] (in French), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 360, page 67
• Henning, W. (1954) “Notes on the great inscription of Šāpūr I”, in Prof. Jackson memorial volume: Papers on Iranian subjects., Bombay: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, page 54 of 40–54
• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Vīrōi”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 371a
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2021) Iranian personal names in Armenian collateral tradition (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band V, Faszikel 3), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 802, page 365
• Schmitt, Rüdiger (2016) Personennamen in parthischen epigraphischen Quellen [Personal names in Parthian inscriptional sources] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band II, Faszikel 5) (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 573, page 237