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Reconstruction:Old Persian/Vātafradātah

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This Old Persian 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 Persian

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Etymology

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From *vātah (wind; wind-god Vata) +‎ *fradātah (bestowed), from Proto-Iranian *fradaHtáh, from *fra- +‎ *daHtáh.

Proper noun

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*Vātafradātah m[1][2][3]

  1. a male given name

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Αὐτοφραδάτης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 52-53
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1823. *Vātafradāta-”, 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 341
  3. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*vātafradāta-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 258
  4. ^ Khodadad Rezakhani, Onomastica Persida: Names of the Rulers of Persis in the Seleucid and Arsacid Periods, Ancient Iranian Numismatics, 2000, pp. 129–135.
  5. ^ Gikyo Ito, Gathica XIV-XV: Syenian Frataraka and Persid Fratarak: New Iranian Elements in Ancient Aramaic, Orient, 1976, p. 47-66.