Reconstruction:Old Persian/Naryasanhah

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 *Hnárācánhah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnárāćánsas. Cognate with Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬋⸱𐬯𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀 (naⁱriiō.saŋha), Parthian 𐭍𐭓𐭉𐭎𐭇𐭅 (nrysḥw /⁠Narisaxw⁠/), Sanskrit नराशंस (nárāśáṃsa).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Proper noun

Naryasanhah m

(Zoroastrianism) Name of a yazata
a male given name

Descendants

Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩 (nrsḥy /⁠Narseh⁠/)
- Persian: نرسه (narse), نرسی (narsi)
- → Ancient Greek: Ναρσῆς (Narsês)
  - → Latin: Narses
  - → Old Armenian: Ներսէս (Nersēs)
- → Coptic: ⲛⲁⲣⲥⲁⲫ (narsaph)^[5]
- → Old Armenian: Ներսեհ (Nerseh)
→ Elamite:
- Achaemenid Elamite: 𒈾𒊑𒃻𒀭𒋡 (na-re-šá-an-ka₄ /⁠Narešanka⁠/), 𒈾𒊑𒅀𒃻𒀭𒋡 (na-ri-ia-šá-an-ka₄ /⁠Nariyašanka⁠/)

References

^ Gignoux, Philippe (1986), “678. Narseh”, in Noms propres sassanides en moyen-perse épigraphique [Sasanian proper names in Inscriptional Middle Persian] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band II, Faszikel 2) (in French), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
^ Hinz, Walther (1975), Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 174
^ Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.1.5. *Narēsanga-: < *Naryasanga-”, 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 98
^ Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.2.1174. *Naryasanga- / *Narēsanga-”, 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 258
^ Pedersen, Nils Arne. “A Manichaean Historical Text.” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 119, 1997, pp. 193–201. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20190115. Accessed 4 Mar. 2021.

[1] Gignoux, Philippe (1986), “678. Narseh”, in Noms propres sassanides en moyen-perse épigraphique [Sasanian proper names in Inscriptional Middle Persian] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band II, Faszikel 2) (in French), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

[2] Hinz, Walther (1975), Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 174

[3] Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.1.5. *Narēsanga-: < *Naryasanga-”, 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 98

[4] Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.2.1174. *Naryasanga- / *Narēsanga-”, 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 258

[5] Pedersen, Nils Arne. “A Manichaean Historical Text.” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 119, 1997, pp. 193–201. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20190115. Accessed 4 Mar. 2021.

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