Reconstruction:Old Persian/Ātr̥pātah
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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 Proto-Iranian *HaHtr̥paHtah, from *HáHtr̥š (“Fire; fire”) + *paHtáh (“protected”), from Proto-Iranian *paHtáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *paHtás, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-tó-s, from *peh₂- (“to protect”) + *-tós. Equivalent to *ātr̥š (“fire”) + 𐎱𐎠𐎫 (p-a-t /pātaʰ/, “protected”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬞𐬁𐬙𐬀 (Atərᵊ.pāta).[1][2]
Proper noun
- a male given name
Descendants
(taking Old Persian as representative for all Old Iranian):
- Middle Persian: (ʾtwrpʾt' /Ādurbād/)
- Persian: آذرباد (Âzarbâd), آذربد (Âzarbad)
- ⇒ Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭲𐭥𐭥𐭯𐭠𐭲𐭪𐭠𐭭 (ʾtwrpʾtkʾn /Ādurbādagān/)
- Persian: آذربایجان (Âzarbâyjân)
- → Akkadian:
- Late Babylonian: 𒀜𒋫𒊏𒉺𒋫 (at-ta-ra-pa-ta /Atarapata/)
- → Achaemenid Elamite: 𒄩𒋻𒁀𒀜𒆪 (ha-tar-ba-ad-da /Hatarbada/), 𒄩𒋻𒁀 (ha-tar-ba-ud-da𒌓𒆪 /Hatarbauda/)
- → Ancient Greek: Ἀτροπάτης (Atropátēs) (see there for further descendants)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hinz, Walther (1975) “*ātrpāta-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 49
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.193. *Ātṛpāta-: Ātṛ-pāta-”, 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 125
- ^ Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Ātarepāta”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 49a