๐ƒ๐Žก๐Žฏ๐Žข๐Žน

Old Persian

Etymology

Masculine gender adjective formed from ๐ƒ๐Žก๐Žฏ๐Žข๐ (h-i-du-u-ลก /โ Hiโฟduลกโ /, โ€œIndiaโ€) +โ€Ž -๐Žน (-y /โ -yaสฐโ /, adjectival suffix), used as a substantive.

Noun

๐ƒ๐Žก๐Žฏ๐Žข๐Žน (Hiโฟduya)

  1. an Indian
    ๐Žก๐Žน๐Žถ ๐ ๐ƒ๐Žก๐Žฏ๐Žข๐Žน โ€• iyam Hiโฟduya โ€• this is an Indian[1]

Descendants
  • Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (hndwk' /โ hindลซgโ /), ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ—๐ซ…๐ซ‡๐ซƒ (hyndwg /โ hindลซgโ /)[2]
  • โ†’ Akkadian:
    Late Babylonian: ๐’…”๐’บ๐’Œ‹ (in-du-u /โ Indลซโ /), ๐’…”๐’บ๐’ˆ ๐’€€๐’€€ (in-du-ma-a-a /โ Indumฤyaโ /), ๐’…”๐’บ๐’ˆ ๐’€€๐’€€๐’€ช (in-du-ma-a-a- /โ Indumฤyaสพโ /)[3]
  • โ†’ Elamite:
    Achaemenid Elamite: ๐’„ญ๐’…”๐’บ๐’†œ (hi-in-du-iลก /โ Hinduiลกโ /), ๐’„ญ๐’บ (hi-du /โ Hiduโ /), ๐’„ญ๐’บ๐’ (hi-du-be /โ Hidubeโ /), ๐’„ญ๐’บ๐’†œ (hi-du-iลก /โ Hiduiลกโ /), ๐’„ญ๐’…”๐’บ๐’…€ (hi-in-du-ia /โ Hinduyaโ /), ๐’„ญ๐’…”๐’บ๐’…€๐’ (hi-in-du-ia-be /โ Hinduyabeโ /), ๐’„ญ๐’…”๐’บ๐’…€๐’… (hi-in-du-ia-ip /โ Hinduyaipโ /), ๐’„ญ๐’…”๐’บ๐’…€๐’†œ (hi-in-du-ia-iลก /โ Hinduyaiลกโ /)[3][4]

References
  1. Text: A.2P, Part No. 130, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
  2. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) โ€œHindลซgโ€, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43
  3. Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550โ€“330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, โ†’ISBN
  4. Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C. Ira Spar, Michael Jursa Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 aoรปt 2014
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