Reconstruction:Old Persian/Vahumanāh

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

Nominative singular of *Vahumanah.^[1]^[2]

Descendants

Middle Persian: (/⁠Wahman⁠/)
Manichaean script: 𐫇𐫍𐫖𐫗 (whmn)

Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (whwmn')

Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭥𐭤𐭥𐭬𐭭 (whwmn), 𐭥𐭤𐭬𐭭 (whmn), 𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭭 (wḥwmn)
- Persian: بهمن (bahman)
→ Akkadian:
Late Babylonian: 𒌑𒄷𒈠𒈾𒀪 (ú-ḫu-ma-na-ʾ /⁠Uḫumanaʾ⁠/)
→ Ancient Greek: Ὠμάνης (Ōmánēs)
- Greek: Ὠμάνης (Ománis)
- → Latin: Ōmanēs

References

^ Hinz, Walther (1975), “*vahumanah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 374
^ Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.2.1776. *Vahumanā-”, 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 334

[1] Hinz, Walther (1975), “*vahumanah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 374

[2] Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.2.1776. *Vahumanā-”, 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 334

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