Re: [tied] Dareios = Persian ...?

Is this dHa:r root is the same as dHar-?

Has this name an inverted form *Vahu-dha:raya- ?

What would be the PIE etymo? dHe:r-eyo-wesu ?

Joao SL

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Subject: Re: [tied] Dareios = Persian ...?

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