𐎶𐎦𐏁

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Old Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *magúš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *magʰúš, from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-ú-s, from *megʰ- (“to be able”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Noun

𐎶𐎦𐏁 (m-gu-š /maguš/) m

priest

Descendants

Middle Persian: (/⁠moɣ⁠/)
Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (MGWŠH)

Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭬𐭢𐭥 (mgw)
- Persian: مغ (moɣ)
- → Old Armenian: մոգ (mog)
  - Armenian: մոգ (mog)
  - → Old Georgian: მოგჳ (mogwi)
    - Georgian: მოგვი (mogvi)
→ Ancient Greek: μάγος (mágos)
- Greek: μάγος (mágos)
- → Latin: magus
  - → English: mage, magic, magician
→ Aramaic:
Imperial Aramaic: 𐡌𐡂𐡅𐡔𐡀 (mgwšʾ)
- Classical Syriac: ܡܓܘܫܐ (məḡūšā)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מגושא (mgwšʾ)
- → Arabic: مَجُوس (majūs)
  - → Persian: مجوس (majūs)
- → Hebrew: מָג (māḡ)

See also

𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (magūš, “possibly a Zoroastrian priest, a magician, or a sub-tribe of the Medes”)

References

^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
^ “𐎶𐎦𐏁”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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