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Reconstruction:Old Persian/Ātr̥pātah

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 Proto-Iranian *HaHtr̥paHtah, from *HáHtr̥š (“Fire; fire”) +‎ *paHtáh (“protected”), from Proto-Iranian *paHtáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *paHtás, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-tó-s, from *peh₂- (“to protect”) +‎ *-tós. Equivalent to *ātr̥š (“fire”) +‎ 𐎱𐎠𐎫 (p-a-t /⁠pātaʰ⁠/, “protected”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬞𐬁𐬙𐬀 (Atərᵊ.pāta).[1][2]

Proper noun

*Ātr̥pātah m[3][1][2]

  1. a male given name

Descendants

(taking Old Persian as representative for all Old Iranian):

  • Middle Persian: (/⁠Ādurbād⁠/)
    Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾtwrpʾt')
  • → Akkadian:
    Late Babylonian: 𒀜𒋫𒊏𒉺𒋫 (at-ta-ra-pa-ta /⁠Atarapata⁠/)
  • → Elamite:
    Achaemenid Elamite: 𒄩𒋻𒁀𒀜𒆪 (ha-tar-ba-ad-da /⁠Hatarbada⁠/), 𒄩𒋻𒁀 (ha-tar-ba-ud-da𒌓𒆪 /⁠Hatarbauda⁠/)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἀτροπάτης (Atropátēs)
    → Middle Persian: ʾtwrpʾtkʾn (ādurbādagān)
    → Persian: آذربایجان (Âzarbâyjân, “Azerbaijan”)

References
  1. Hinz, Walther (1975) “*ātrpāta-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 49
  2. Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.193. *Ātṛpāta-: Ātṛ-pāta-”, 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 125
  3. Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Ātarepāta”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎ (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 49a
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