Reconstruction:Old Persian/baivaram

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Reconstruction:Old Persian/baivaram

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

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *baywáram, accusative of *baywā́.

Noun

*baivaram[1]

1. myriad, ten thousand

Derived terms

• Old Persian: *baivarpati (literally “commander of ten thousand [men]”)
  • → Ancient Greek: μυριάρχης (muriárkhēs) (calque) [c. 430–354 BCE, Xenophon]
    • → English: myriarch

Descendants

• Middle Persian:

  Manichaean: 𐫁𐫏𐫇𐫡‎ (bywr /bēwar/)

  Book Pahlavi: [Term?] (/bēwar/)

  Pazend: 𐬠𐬀𐬈𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭‎ (baeuuar /baevar/)

  • Classical Persian: [Term?] (/bēwar/)
    • Iranian Persian: بیور‎ (bivar), بیوار‎ (bivâr)
    • Tajik: бевар (bevar)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: بیور‎ (bîver), بیوار‎ (bîvâr)

References

1. Rezai Baghbidi, Hassan (2017) Middle Persian Historical Phonology, Osaka: Osaka University, page 26