Reconstruction:Old Median/hazārapatiš

This Old Median 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 Median

Etymology

From *hazāram (“thousand”) +‎ *patiš (“master”).

Noun

*hazārapatiš[1]

  1. commander of a thousand men

Descendants

  • → Old Persian: *hazārapatiš
    • → Ancient Greek: ἀζαραπατεῖς (azarapateîs)[1]
    • → Ancient Greek: χιλίαρχος (khilíarkhos), χιλιάρχης (khiliárkhēs) (calque)[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 120
  2. ^ “Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek”, in Encyclopædia Iranica‎[2], 26 May 2024 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 May 2017
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.