Iranian Studies II

H. W. Bailey

doi:10.1017/S0041977X00105415

Iranian Studies II

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009

H. W. Bailey

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A passage of the tale of Husrav and the Page (Pahl. Texts, pp. 29-30, in Unvala's edition, § 30) may form the starting-point for a discussion of kavāt. It has not so far been fully translated.

Type: Papers Contributed
Information: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1933 , pp. 69 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00105415 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 69 note 1} For Pāz. = v, cf. , and for ā = a cf. .

^{page 70 note 1} A similar formation is probably Pahl. vāčcār, Arm. Lw. vačcar ‘market’, Georg. vač‘ari ‘merchant’, which belongs to vī-čar- as found in Av. (Yt. 5⁸⁹) pasvasča .

Yt. 13 fravašayō xšnutō ayantu ahmya nmāne

Xšnutō ahmya nmāne.

is the place ‘associated with moving to and fro, with traffic’, cf. on kāradāk below. (I am indebted for the word to Colonel D. L. R. Lorimer. During my stay in Persia this year I found used in Gaz.) may possibly have preserved a form without . Marr's etymology in Zap. Vost. Otd., vii, p. 13, is baseless.

Here I would also place Av. ‘a look-out’ as a form to *vi-dayana, in preference to the view of Wackernagel (Studia Indo-iranica, Ehrengabe für W. Geiger, p. 227 et seq.).