Reconstruction:Old Median/masištah

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

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *majištah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *maȷ́ʰištʰas. Cognate of Old Persian *maθištah, Younger Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬀 (masišta).

Adjective

*masištah (/masištah/)[1]

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

Derived terms

References

  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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