On 04-10-13 15:31, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
> /Da:rayawaus^/ (in normalized = partly reconstructed form), if I
> remember correctly.
<d-a-r-y-v-u-s^> = normalised <da:rayavaus^>, probably to be
etymologised as <da:raya-> 'holding, sustaining' (cf. Skt. dHa:raya-) +
<vahu-> 'good'. There must have existed a contracted allegro variant
<da:rayaus^>, which explains some of the foreign versions of the name,
including Gk. Dareios. For some basic online info about Old Persian (and
the translated text of the Behistan inscription, where D. is mentioned
again and again and again), see
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/aveol-7-X.html
Piotr