Reconstruction:Old Persian/Jāmāspah
Old Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *jāmah (“leading”) + 𐎠𐎿𐎱 (a-s-p /*aspaʰ/, “horse”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬘𐬁𐬨𐬁𐬯𐬞𐬀 (Jāmāspa) and Parthian 𐭆𐭀𐭌𐭀𐭎𐭐 (zʾmʾsp /Jāmāsp/).[1][2]
Proper noun
[edit]*Jāmāspah (/Jāmāspah/)
- a male given name
Descendants
[edit]- Middle Persian: 𐭩𐭠𐭬𐭠𐭮𐭯 (yʾmʾsp /Jāmāsp/)
- Persian: جاماسپ (Jāmāsp)
- → Akkadian:
- → Ancient Greek: Ζαμάσφης (Zamásphēs)
- → Aramaic:
- Imperial Aramaic: 𐡆𐡌𐡎𐡐 (zmsp)
- → Elamite:
References
[edit]- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*jāmāspa-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 143
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.892. *Jāmāspa-”, 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 220