𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎠𐎹

Old Persian

Etymology

Ultimately from Egyptian



(pyt, “Libya”),[1] from earlier

(pwꜣdj).[2][3] Compare with Demotic Egyptian


(tꜣ pywdj), Coptic ⲫⲁⲓⲁⲧ (phaiat) and ⲡⲁⲓⲉⲧ (paiet).

Either independently derived or potentially via Neo-Babylonian 𒁍𒂅 (pu-ṭu /⁠Puṭu⁠/) and Late Babylonian 𒁍𒌑𒁕 (pu-ú-ṭa /⁠Pūṭa⁠/), 𒁍𒌑𒂅 (pu-ú-ṭu /⁠Pūṭu⁠/), 𒁍𒁕𒀀𒀀 (pu-ṭa-a-a /⁠Puṭāya⁠/), which are not from Old Persian, but directly from Egyptian themselves.[3]

Proper noun

𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎠𐎹 (p-u-t-a-y /Putāyaʰ⁠/)

  1. Libya (a country in North Africa)

Descendants

  • → Achaemenid Elamite: 𒁍𒌓𒁕𒀀𒅀 (pu-ud-da-a-ia /⁠Pudāya⁠/), 𒁍𒌓𒁕𒅀 (pu-ud-da-ia /⁠Pudaya⁠/), 𒁍𒌑𒋾𒅀𒀊 (pu-ú-ti-ia-ap /⁠Pūtiyap⁠/)

References

  1. ^ Posener, Georges (1936), La première domination perse en Égypte: Recueil d’inscriptions hiéroglyphiques, page 186
  2. ^ Černý, Jaroslav (1976), Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 350
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tavernier, Jan (2007), “3.2.12. Putāya- (P-u-t-a-y-)”, 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 95
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