𐎠𐎿𐎫𐎡𐎹

Old Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hásti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hásti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti. Cognate with Sanskrit अस्ति (ásti).

Verb

𐎠𐎿𐎫𐎡𐎹 (a-s-t-i-y /astiy/)[1]

  1. to be, exist
  2. to be (copula)

Descendants
  • Middle Persian:
    Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭠𐭩𐭲𐭩 (ast)

References
  1. Gindro, S. with Scarlata, S. and Widmer, P. (2013) “Old Persian Corpus”, in TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien‎, section 11
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