Reconstruction:Old Persian/Mazdāyah
Old Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *Mazdā (“deity Ahura Mazda”) + 𐎹 (y /*-yaʰ/, adjectival suffix).[1][2][3]
Proper noun
[edit]*Mazdāyah (/Mazdāyah/) (feminine *Mazdāyā)
- a male given name
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*mazdāyā̆-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 164
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) 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 244
- ^ * Ernst Badian, "MAZAEUS" in Encyclopædia Iranica, April 21, 2015