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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Old Persian *ʰUparviyā.[1][2]
Compare with Elamite 𒌑𒁇𒈪𒅀 (ú-bar-mi-ia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pár.mys/ → /ˈpar.mys/ → /ˈpar.mis/
Proper noun
Πᾰ́ρμῠς • (Pármus) f (genitive Πᾰ́ρμῠος); third declension
- a female given name from Old Persian: Parmys, a Persian princess and granddaughter of Cyrus the Great
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Descendants
References
- ^ Christopher J. Tuplin, “Arsāma and His World: the Bodleian Letters in Context: Volume II: Bullae and Seals,” Oxford University Press, 2021, p. 58, 152-153
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.820. *(H)uparviyā-”, 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 209
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