𐏁𐎡𐎹𐎠𐎫𐎡𐎶
šiyātimwell being
No greeting survives in Old Persian. The language is known almost only from royal inscriptions, which record no conversations. The closest word is 𐏁𐎡𐎹𐎠𐎫𐎡𐎶 (šiyātim), "happiness, well-being".
In the inscriptions šiyāti- is the well-being that the god Ahuramazda created for mankind. It is a natural word for wishing someone well, but it is not recorded as a greeting.
Meaning: greeting (intj)
Which one should you use?
The letters of the Achaemenid empire were written in Aramaic, not Old Persian, and they opened with wishes of šlm, "peace".
How does it change in a sentence?
šiyātim is the accusative form. The dictionary form is šiyāti-, and the nominative šiyātiš also occurs.
How do you pronounce it?
shee-YAA-tim
Did you know?
- Old Persian cuneiform was a newly designed script with only about three dozen sound signs, far fewer than the hundreds of signs used to write Akkadian.
Examples in context
- 𐏃𐎹 𐏐 𐏁𐎡𐎹𐎠𐎫𐎡𐎶 𐏐 𐎠𐎭𐎠 𐏐 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹𐏃𐎹𐎠hya šiyātim adā martiyahyāWho created happiness for mankind (inscription on the tomb of Darius, DNa)
