Ἀμόργης

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Persian, possibly from *Humargah.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ἀμόργης (Amórgēsm (genitive Ἀμόργου); third declension

  1. a male given name from Old Persian: Amorges, son of Pissuthnes

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Greek: Αμόργης (Amórgis)
  • Latin: Amorgēs

Further reading

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  1. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 121
  2. ^ 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 206
  3. ^ Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, "AMORGES" in Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 1989