Reconstruction:Old Median/Masištah

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Old Median

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Etymology

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From *masistah. Cognate with Old Persian 𐎶𐎰𐎡𐏁𐎫 (m-θ-i-š-t /⁠Maθištaʰ⁠⁠/)

Adjective

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*Masištah (/masištah/)[1]

  1. superlative degree of *masah (“great, big”): greatest, biggest

Descendants

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  • → Akkadian:
  • → Elamite:

References

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  1. ^ 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, page 558
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