Ἀβραγος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From a Scythian cognate of Old Persian *Abraka (“the dark one”).^[1]^[2]

Proper noun

Ἀβραγος • (Abragos) m (genitive Ἀβραγου); ? declension

a male given name from Scythian: Abragus

Descendants

Greek: Αβραγος (Avragos)
→ Latin: Abragus

References

^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*aβraka-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 20
^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.17. *Abraka-”, 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 101

[1] Hinz, Walther (1975) “*aβraka-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 20

[2] Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.17. *Abraka-”, 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 101

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Ἀβραγος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Proper noun

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