Reconstruction:Old Persian/spantah
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Presumably borrowed from either Old Median *spantah or Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬧𐬙𐬀 (spəṇta),[1] both from Proto-Iranian *cwantáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwantás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen-tó-s, from *ḱwen- (“holy, sacred”) + *-tós.
Adjective
[edit]*spantah
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gignoux, Philippe (1986) Noms propres sassanides en moyen-perse épigraphique [Sasanian proper names in Inscriptional Middle Persian] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band II, Faszikel 2) (in French), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 159
Categories:
- Old Persian terms borrowed from Old Median
- Old Persian terms derived from Old Median
- Old Persian terms borrowed from Avestan
- Old Persian terms derived from Avestan
- Old Persian terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Old Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Old Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Persian lemmas
- Old Persian adjectives