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1st pers 3d pers a-stems abara abava abiy ablaut accent accusative adā adam adjectives adverb āha ahatiy Ahura Mazda akunavam amāxam Ancient Persian aorist appears army Aryan asti auramazdā avadā avam avam kāram Avestan bardiya became bīyā Class clause consonant dahyāva Darius derived languages diphthong dual enclitic ending Extended Grade forms Gaumata genitive Goth Greek hacā hauv I. E. Anc imām imperf Indo-European Indo-European languages inscriptions iyam jatā kartam king Lith Low Grade mādam manā martiya masc naiy nāma nasal nominative nouns occurs optative pārsa participle pasāva patiy Persepolis person plural postpositive pronoun Reduplication Sanskrit Semivowels singular stem subj subjunctive suffix syllable taumāyā thematic verbs thou tive Tolman Cun Tolman Lex tyam unthematic utā velar vowel Weissbach word Xerx xšadram xšāyadiya yadā
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Page 216 - A great god is Auramazda, who created this earth, who created yonder heaven, who created man, who created welfare for man, who made Darius king, one king of many, one lord of many.
Page 2 - They are all three cornered, but somewhat long, of the forme of a Pyramide, or such a little Obeliske as I have set in the margin (A) ; so that in nothing do they differ from one another but in their placing and situation, yet so conformed that they are wondrous plaine, distinct and perspicuous.
Page v - ... Ancient Persian Lexicon and Cuneiform Supplement, in the same series, is acknowledged to be one of the foremost authorities in this country on the old Persian language, and it was under his careful supervision that this excellent piece of work by Dr. Johnson has been brought to completion. The volume is designed to serve a twofold purpose: "to present in systematic arrangement the results of the most recent as well as the earlier investigations in this field, and to show by comparative examples...
Page 2 - ... to another much higher, where was a chamber excavated in the hillside, which must have been intended to contain the king's body, although the natives, imagining that it contained a different treasure, have broken into it, having little respect for the ancient memory of him who constructed it. ... " The inscriptions — which relate to the foundation of the edifice, and, no doubt, also, declare the author of it — although they remain in many parts very distinct, yet there is none that can read...
Page 8 - ... personage in the history of the event : and, besides, it seems to designate a striking peculiarity of the Jews, who were accustomed to write memorable sentences of old, in the form of phylacteries, on different parts of their raiment. What those may mean, which cover the garment of this figure, we have no means of explaining, till the diligent researches of the learned may be able to decipher the arrow-headed character, and then a full light would be thrown on the whole history, by expounding...
Page 216 - ... baga vazarka auramazda hya imam bumim ada hya avam asmanam ada hya martiyam ada hya siyatim ada martiyahya hya darayavaum xsaya0iyam akunaus, Dar.
Page 215 - long", unter Berufung auf Foy (s. oben § 111). So gelangt er zur Übersetzung 'long aforetime'. Die ganze Stelle (§ 122) lautet bei ihm: "8 of my family (there were) who were formerly kings ; I am the ninth (9) ; long aforetime we were (lit. are) kings".
Page 223 - A great god is Ahura Mazda, who created this earth, who created yonder sky, who created man, who created happiness for man, who made Xerxes king, one king of many, one lord of many.
Page 195 - ... par un etranger ignorant la langue est la seule possible devant l'inscription d'Artaxerxes III." Another supporter of the corruption theory is EL Johnson, who writes as follows in his Historical Grammar of the Ancient Persian Language (p. 195 f .) : "... much of what we have from a period later than Xerxes, particularly from the reigns of Artaxerxes II. and Artaxerxes III., shows a corruption of forms and an irregularity of construction which not merely mark the decline of the language, but indicate...
Page 5 - N., the great king, the king of kings, the king of Iran and Aniran, son of N., the great king, etc.