Reconstruction:Old Median/hazārapatiš

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This Old Median 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 Median

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Etymology

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From *hazāram (thousand) +‎ *patiš (master).

Noun

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*hazārapatiš[1]

  1. commander of a thousand men

Descendants

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 120
  2. ^ “Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek”, in Encyclopædia Iranica[2], 2024 May 26 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 May 2017