Where does “Khamenei” come from?
Khamenei is an English rendering of the Persian name خامنهای, derived from the Persian خامنه.
Ancestry of “Khamenei”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Persian | خامنهای | — |
| 2 | Persian | ـی | Forms nouns or adjectives from nouns; Forms... |
| 3 | Middle Persian | -yk' | — |
| 4 | Old Persian | -𐎡𐎣 | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | -kas | Creates deadjectival and desubstantival... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |