πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’πŽΉ

Old Persian
An early 5th century BC relief of Indian tribute bearers. This relief is from the eastern stairs leading to the Apadana at Persepolis.

Etymology

Masculine gender adjective formed from πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’π (h-i-du-u-Ε‘ /HiⁿduΕ‘/, β€œIndia”) +β€Ž -𐎹 (-y /-yaΚ°/, adjectival suffix), used as a substantive.

Noun

πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’πŽΉ (Hiⁿduya)

  1. an Indian
    𐎑𐎹𐎢 𐏐 πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’πŽΉ ― iyam Hiⁿduya ― this is an Indian[1]

Descendants
  • Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (hndwk' /hindΕ«g/), π«π«π«—π«…π«‡π«ƒβ€Ž (hyndwg /hindΕ«g/)[2]
  • β†’ Akkadian:
    Late Babylonian: π’…”π’Ίπ’Œ‹ (in-du-u /IndΕ«/), π’…”π’Ίπ’ˆ π’€€π’€€ (in-du-ma-a-a /Indumāya/), π’…”π’Ίπ’ˆ π’€€π’€€π’€ͺ (in-du-ma-a-a- /IndumāyaΚΎ/)[3]
  • β†’ Elamite:
    Achaemenid Elamite: π’„­π’…”π’Ίπ’†œ (hi-in-du-iΕ‘ /HinduiΕ‘/), 𒄭𒁺 (hi-du /Hidu/), 𒄭𒁺𒁁 (hi-du-be /Hidube/), π’„­π’Ίπ’†œ (hi-du-iΕ‘ /HiduiΕ‘/), 𒄭𒅔𒁺𒅀 (hi-in-du-ia /Hinduya/), 𒄭𒅔𒁺𒅀𒁁 (hi-in-du-ia-be /Hinduyabe/), 𒄭𒅔𒁺𒅀𒅁 (hi-in-du-ia-ip /Hinduyaip/), π’„­π’…”π’Ίπ’…€π’†œ (hi-in-du-ia-iΕ‘ /HinduyaiΕ‘/)[3][4]

References
  1. Text: A.2P, Part No. 130, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
  2. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), β€œHindΕ«g”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43
  3. Tavernier, Jan (2007) 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, β†’ISBN
  4. Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C. Ira Spar, Michael Jursa Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 aoΓ»t 2014
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