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Reconstruction:Old Persian/Arvantapātah

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 *arvāh ~ *arvantah (“swift”) +‎ 𐎱𐎠𐎫 (p-a-t /⁠pātaʰ⁠/, “protected”).[1]

Proper noun

*Arvantapātah m[2][1]

  1. a male given name

Descendants
  • → Aramaic:
    Imperial Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡅𐡍𐡕𐡐𐡕 (ʾrwntpt)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ὀροντοβάτης (Orontobátēs), Ὀροντοπάτης (Orontopátēs)

References
  1. Tavernier, Jan (2007) “*4.2.115 *Arvantapāta-”, in 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 114
  2. Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Ὀρoντoπάτης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎ (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 235b-236a
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