Old Persian
Adjective
𐎹𐎢𐎴 (y-u-n /Yauna/)[1][2]
- Ionian
- Greek
Proper noun
𐎹𐎢𐎴 (y-u-n /Yaunaʰ/)[1][2]
- Ionia
DNa 27-29
𐏐 𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎠𐎹 𐏐 𐎸𐎢𐎭𐎼𐎠𐎹 𐏐 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴
𐏐 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 𐏐 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭 𐏐 𐎹𐎢𐎴 𐏐 𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎱𐎼𐎭𐎼𐎹
𐏐 𐎿𐎤𐎢𐎭𐎼 𐏐 𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎣𐎲𐎼𐎠 𐏐 𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎠𐎹𐎠- : a-r-b-a-y : mu-u-d-r-a-y : a-r-mi-i-n
: k-t-p-tu-u-k : s-p-r-d : y-u-n : s-k-a : t-y-i-y : p-r-d-r-y
: s-ku-u-d-r : y-u-n-a : t-k-b-r-a : p-u-t-a-y-a - /: Arabāya : Mudrāya : Armina
: Katpatuka : Sparda : Yauna : Sakā : tayaiy : paradraya
: Skudra : Yaunā : takabarā : Putāyā/
[...] Arabia, Egypt, Armenia,
Cappadocia, Lydia, Greece, the Scythians who are across the Sea,
Thrace, the Greeks who wear shield-like hats, Libya [...]
Derived terms
- 𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎠 (y-u-n-a /Yaunā/)
- 𐎹𐎢𐎴𐎡𐎹 (y-u-n-i-y /Yauniya/)
Descendants
- Middle Persian: *yōnān
- → Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀬𑁄𑀦 (yona)
- → Pali: yona, yonā
- → Sanskrit: यवन (yavana) (see there for further descendants)
- → Elamite:[3]
- Achaemenid Elamite: 𒅀𒌋𒈾 (ia-u-na /Yauna/), 𒅀𒌋𒈾𒀊 (ia-u-na-ap /Yaunap/), 𒅀𒌋𒈾𒅁 (ia-u-na-ip /Yaunaip/), 𒄿𒅀𒌋𒈾𒅁 (i-ia-u-na-ip /Iyaunaip/)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kent, Roland G. (1950) “Yauna-”, in Old Persian: grammar, texts, lexicon, New Haven: American Oriental Society, page 204
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tolman, Herbert Cushing (1908) “yauna”, in Ancient Persian lexicon and the texts of the Achaemenidan inscriptions transliterated and translated with special reference to their recent re-examination (Vanderbilt Oriental Series; 6), New York/Cincinnati/Chicago: American Book Company, page 119
- ^ 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 95