Reconstruction:Old Median/Arbakah

This Old Median 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 Median

Etymology

From *arbah (“young”) +‎ *-kah (hypocoristic suffix).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Proper noun

*Arbakah m

a male given name

Descendants

→ Akkadian:
- Neo-Assyrian: 𒅈𒁀𒆪 (ar-ba-ku /⁠Arbaku⁠/)
- Late Babylonian: 𒅈𒁀𒀝𒅗 (ar-ba-ak-ka /⁠Arbaka⁠/)
→ Ancient Greek: Ἅρπαγος (Hárpagos), Ἀρβάκης (Arbákēs)
- Greek: Άρπαγος (Árpagos)
- → Lycian: 𐊀𐊕𐊓𐊀𐊜𐊒 (Arpaχu)
- → Latin: Harpagus
- Greek: Ἀρβάκης (Arbákēs)
- → Latin: Arbacēs
- → Aramaic:
  - Classical Syriac: ܐܪܒܩ (Arbak)
→ Elamite:
- Achaemenid Elamite: 𒄯𒁀𒋡 (ḫar-ba-ka₄ /⁠Ḫarbaka⁠/)
→ Old Armenian: Արբակ (Arbak)

References

^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*arbakā̆-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 35
^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.82. *Arbaka-”, 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 110
^
2011, Rüdiger Schmitt, Iranische Personennamen in de Griechischen Literatur vor Alexander d. Gr. [Iranian Personal Names in Greek Literature before Alexander the Great] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch), volume 5A, pages 79-80:
^
2011, Rüdiger Schmitt, Iranische Personennamen in de Griechischen Literatur vor Alexander d. Gr. [Iranian Personal Names in Greek Literature before Alexander the Great] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch), volume 5A, pages 92-93:

[1] Hinz, Walther (1975) “*arbakā̆-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 35

[2] Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.82. *Arbaka-”, 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 110

[3] 
2011, Rüdiger Schmitt, Iranische Personennamen in de Griechischen Literatur vor Alexander d. Gr. [Iranian Personal Names in Greek Literature before Alexander the Great] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch), volume 5A, pages 79-80:

[4] 
2011, Rüdiger Schmitt, Iranische Personennamen in de Griechischen Literatur vor Alexander d. Gr. [Iranian Personal Names in Greek Literature before Alexander the Great] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch), volume 5A, pages 92-93:

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