Reconstruction:Old Median/Zaryāspah
Old Median
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *zaryah (“golden, yellow”) + *aspah (“horse”). Cognate with Sanskrit हर्यश्व (háryaśva).[1][2]
Proper noun
[edit]*Zaryāspah (/Zaryāspah/)
- a male given name
- A city: Bactra (now Balkh)
Descendants
[edit]- → Ancient Greek: Ζαριάσπης (Zariáspēs), Ζαριάσπα (Zariáspa)
- → Armenian: Զարասպ (Zarasp)
- → Elamite:
- Achaemenid Elamite: 𒍝𒈠𒀾𒁀 (za-re-áš-ba /Zareašba/)
- → Persian: زراسپ (Zarāsp)
References
[edit]- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*zaryāspa-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 278
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.2054. *Zaryāspa-”, 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 370