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Paradise Word History:

The word paradise has come to refer to something better than what it used to refer to, this is known as amelioration.

The ancient Iranian language (Avestan) had a noun pairidaza- that refered to "a wall enclosing a garden or orchard". It is composed of pairi-, "around," and daza- "wall".

The adverb and preposition pairi is related to, and is equivalent to the Greek form peri, as in perimeter. Daza- comes from the Indo-European root *dheigh- which means "to mold, form, shape."

The Zoroastrian religion encouraged the maintaining of arbors, orchards, and gardens. The kings of austere Sparta were edified by seeing the Great King of Persia planting and maintaining his own trees in his own garden.

Xenophon, a Greek mercenary soldier spent some time in the Persian army. He later wrote histories that recorded the pairidaza- surrounding the orchard as paradeisos, using it not to refer to the wall itself but to the huge parks that Persian nobles loved to build and hunt in.

This Greek word (paradeisos) was used in the Septuagint translation of Genesis to refer to the Garden of Eden, whence Old English eventually borrowed it around 1200.

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