𐎠𐎿𐎱𐎨𐎴

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Old Persian

Etymology

Nominative singular of Aspačanah (literally “delighting in horses”), from 𐎠𐎿𐎱 (aspa, “horse”) + *čanah (“desire”) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kan-).[1]

Compare equivalent in Old Median *Aspačinā (literally “desiring for horses”).

Proper noun

𐎠𐎿𐎱𐎨𐎴 (Aspacanāʰ) (nom. sg)

  1. a male given name most famously held by a senior official under Darius the Great and Xerxes. Aspacanah, Aspacana, Aspachanah, Aspachana, Aspathines, Aspačanā, Aspathines

Descendants

(Taking Old Persian as representative for all Old Iranian:)

References

  • A. Sh. Shahbazi (December 15, 1987), "ASPAČANĀ", Encyclopædia Iranica
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1979) Die altiranischen Namen [The Old Iranian Names] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band I, Faszikel II) (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 15, page 15
  • Kent, Roland G. (1950) Old Persian: grammar, texts, lexicon, New Haven: American Oriental Society, page 173b
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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
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