< Reconstruction:Old Persian
Reconstruction:Old Persian/Pišišyauθnaʰ
Old Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Avestan 𐬞𐬌𐬳𐬌⸱𐬳𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬊𐬚𐬥𐬆𐬨 (piš́i.š́iiaoθnəm),[1] from unknown element + *čyáwθnam (“deed, work”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čyáwtnam, from *čyáwati (“to move, stir; to undertake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéw-ti, from *kʷyew- (“to set in motion”), + *-tnam.[2]
Proper noun
*Pišišyauθnaʰ m
- A male given name
Descendants
(taking Old Persian as representative for all Old Iranian):
- → Ancient Greek: Πισσούθνης (Pissoúthnēs)
- Greek: Πισσούθνης (Pissoúthnis)
- → Latin: Pissūthnēs
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895), “Πισσούθνης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 254a
References
- 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 467
- Hinz, Walther (1975), “*pišyauθna-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 192