User:Antiquistik/Αρπόξαϊς
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Scythian *R̥buxšayaʰ, from Proto-Iranian *Hr̥búš + *xšayah (“to rule”).[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Αρπόξαϊς • (Arpóxaïs) m (genitive Αρπόξαϊος); first declension
- a male given name from Scythian: Arpoxais, a Scythian deity
References[edit]
- ^ Mikhail Bukharin (2011) “Колаксай и его братья (античная традиция о происхождении царской власти у скифов [Kolaxais and his Brothers (Classical Tradition on the Origin of the Royal Power of the Scythians)]”, in Аристей: вестник классической филологии и античной истории[1] (in Russian), volume 3, retrieved 2022-07-13, pages 20-80
Further reading[edit]
- Antiquistik/Αρπόξαϊς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette