๐Žฅ๐Žข๐Žถ๐Ž ๐Žซ

Old Persian

Etymology

From *gauลก (โ€œcattleโ€) +โ€Ž *-mah (possessive suffix) +โ€Ž *-ฤtah (intensificative suffix). Compare with Avestan ๐ฌ”๐ฌ€๐ฌŠ๐ฌจ๐ฌ€๐ฌง๐ฌ™ (gaomaแน‡t).[1][2][3]

Proper noun

๐Žฅ๐Žข๐Žถ๐Ž ๐Žซ (g-u-m-a-t /Gaumฤtaสฐโ /) m

  1. a male given name
    ๐ ๐‘ ๐Žถ๐Žผ๐Žซ๐Žก๐Žน ๐ ๐Žถ๐Žฆ๐Žข๐ ๐ ๐Ž ๐ƒ ๐ ๐Žฅ๐Žข๐Žถ๐Ž ๐Žซ ๐ ๐Žด๐Ž ๐Žถ ๐ ๐ƒ๐Žข๐Žบ ๐ ๐Žข๐Žญ๐Žฑ๐Žซ๐Žซ๐Ž  ๐ ๐ƒ๐Žจ๐Ž  ๐ ๐Žฑ๐Žก๐๐Žก๐Žน๐Ž ๐Žข๐Žบ๐Ž ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žน๐Ž  โ€•
    Aivaสฐโ  martiyaสฐโ  maguลก ฤhaสฐโ  Gaumฤtaสฐโ  nฤmaสฐโ  hauv udapatatฤ hacฤ Paiลกiyฤuvฤdฤyฤ
    โ€•
    There was one man, a magus, Gaumฤtaสฐโ  by name, he rose up from Paiลกiyฤuvฤdaสฐโ 
    [4]

Descendants

  • โ†’ Akkadian:
    • Late Babylonian: ๐’„–๐’ˆ ๐’€€๐’‹พ (gu-ma-a-ti /โ Gumฤtiโ /), ๐’„–๐’ˆ ๐’€€๐’Œ“ (gu-ma-a-tรบ /โ Gumฤtuโ /), ๐’„–๐’ˆ ๐’€€๐’Œˆ (gu-ma-a-tuโ‚„ /โ Gumฤtuโ /)
  • โ†’ Aramaic:
    • Imperial Aramaic: ๐ก‚๐ก…๐กŒ๐ก• (gwmt)
  • โ†’ Elamite:
    • Achaemenid Elamite: ๐’„ฐ๐’ˆ ๐’€œ๐’• (kam-ma-ad-da /โ Kamadaโ /), ๐’„ฐ๐’ˆ ๐’• (kam-ma-da /โ Kamadaโ /)
  • โ†’ Latin: Cometes

References

  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1979), Die altiranischen Namen [The Old Iranian Names] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band I, Faszikel II) (in German), Vienna: Verlag der ร–sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 21
  2. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007), โ€œ1.2.19 Gaumฤta- (G-u-m-a-t-): Gaum-ฤta-โ€, in 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, page 17
  3. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007), โ€œ2.2.24 *Gaumฤta-โ€, in 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, page 63
  4. ^ Gindro, S. with Scarlata, S. and Widmer, P. (2013), โ€œOld Persian Corpusโ€, in TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialienโ€Ž[1], DB1.