Reconstruction:Old Persian/Spantadātah
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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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From *spantah (“beneficent, sacred; Holy”) + 𐎭𐎠𐎫 (d-a-t /dātaʰ/, “given, created”).[1][2] Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬉𐬥𐬙𐬋𐬛𐬁𐬙𐬀 (spēntō.dāta), Parthian 𐭎𐭐𐭍𐭃𐭕𐭊 (Spanddātak), Sogdian [script needed] (ʾspnδʾt), [script needed] (ʾspʾnδt), [script needed] (spnʾδt), [script needed] (ʾspnδt), [script needed] (spnδt).
Proper noun[edit]
- a male given name
Descendants[edit]
- Middle Persian:
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (spnddʾt' /Spanddād/)
- → Aramaic:
- Imperial Aramaic: 𐡎𐡐𐡍𐡕𐡃𐡕 (spntdt)
- → Old Armenian: Սպանդարատ (Spandarat)
- → Georgian: სპანდატ (sṗandaṭ)
- → Ancient Greek: Σφενδαδάτης (Sphendadátēs)
- Greek: Σφενδαδάτης (Sfendadátis)
- → Latin: Sphendadatēs
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hinz, Walther (1975) “*spntadāta-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 227
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1595. *Spantadāta-”, 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 313
- ^ Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Spentōdāta”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 308