On 04-10-13 18:31, Joao wrote:
> 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 ?
From PIE *dHer-. Here, the underlying stem is <da:raya-> < *dHor-éje-,
with Brugmannian lengthening. I'm not a specialist in Old Iranian
onomastics, but if similar compounds in Avestan and Sanskrit are
anything to go by, the full form of the first element of Darius's name
is actually *da:rayat-, with the *-t- lost in Old Persian sandhi -- a
compositionally reduced form of the participle <da:rayant->. Cf. Skt.
epithets like <dHarayat-kavi-> 'supporting/cherishing sages'. I don't
think the elements could be reversed in this kind of name. The name is
of course Iranian, not PIE, so a PIE reconstruction makes little sense,
but typologically similar dithematic names can be found here and there.
Piotr