𐎥𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹
Old Persian
Etymology
Masculine gender adjective formed from 𐎥𐎭𐎠𐎼 (g-d-a-r /Gaⁿdāra/, “Gandhara”) + -𐎹 (-y /-yaʰ/, adjectival suffix), used as a substantive.
Noun
𐎥𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹 (g-d-a-r-y /Gaⁿdāraya/)
- a Gandharan
- 𐎡𐎹𐎶 𐏐 𐎥𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹 ― iyam Gaⁿdāraya ― this is a Gandharan[1]
Descendants
- → Late Babylonian: 𒂵𒀭𒁕𒊒𒄿𒌈 (ga-an-da-ru-i-tu₄)[2]
- → Achaemenid Elamite: 𒃷𒆪𒊑𒅀 (kán-da-re-ia)
Related terms
- 𐎥𐎭𐎠𐎼 (g-d-a-r) (Gaⁿdāra)
References
- Text: A.2P, Part No. 130, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
- 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