Reconstruction:Old Persian/xšaçapāvan

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

Etymology

From 𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎶 (x-š-ç-m /⁠xšaçam⁠/, “realm, province”) +‎ *pāvan (“to protect”). Compare with *xšaθrapā and *xšaθrapānah.[1]

Noun

*xšaçapāvan m

  1. satrap (governor of a province under Achaemenid Persian rule)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^
    1976, Rüdiger Schmitt, “Der Titel „Satrap“ [The Title "Satrap"]”, in Anna Morpurgo Davies, Wolfgang Meid, editors, Studies in Greek, Italic, and Indo-European Linguistics: Offered to Leonard R. Palmer on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, June 5, 1976, pages 373-390:
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