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Reconstruction:Old Persian/maθištah

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Old Persian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *majištah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *maȷ́ʰištʰas. Cognate with Old Median *masištah.

Adjective

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*maθištah (/maθištah/)[1]

  1. superlative degree of *maθah (“great, big”): greatest, biggest

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ 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 558
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