Where does “اَحْمَد” come from?
اَحْمَد (Classical Persian) comes from Arabic أَحْمَد, from Classical Persian جَان, from Middle Persian 𐫃𐫏𐫀𐫗, from Proto-Iranian *wyaHnáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian wyaHnás, from Proto-Indo-European h₂enh₁‑.
Ancestry of “اَحْمَد”, step by step