Where does “Khomeini” come from?
Khomeini comes from Persian خمینی, formed from Persian ـی (a suffix) added to Middle Persian 𐭩𐭧.
Ancestry of “Khomeini”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Persian | خمینی | — |
| 2 | Persian | خمین | Khomein, a town in Iran |
| 3 | Persian | ـی | Forms nouns or adjectives from nouns; Forms... |
| 4 | Middle Persian | -yk' | — |
| 5 | Old Persian | -𐎡𐎣 | of, pertaining to, belonging to, related to |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | -kas | Creates deadjectival and desubstantival... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |