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Common terms and phrases
abara vashna Auramazdaha abava ada hya shiyatim adam akunavam adam khshayathiya amiy adurujiya avatha athaha agarbayam aha avathasham hamaranam ahyaya aivam parunam akunaush aivam akunava(n amiy hya aorist ashiyava Auramazda Auramazda hya imam Auramazdamaiy upastam abara avam karam tyam avatha athaha adam Babirauv Babirum baga Bardiya biya dahyaush dahyava Daraya Darayavush khshayathiya pasava Darius Hystaspes DECLENSION dida drauga fraishayam Gaumata genitive Goth haca hacama hada hada kara hamaranam hauv hya imam bumim hya mana avam hya shiyatim ada ima tya imam Impf impv Inscription Iyam khsha khshatram khshayathiya vazraka khshayathiya khshayathiyahya locative Mada Madaiy mahya martiya martiyam ada hya naiy nama noun Old Persian Old Persian language Parsa Parsaiy patish patiy pita Plur prefix pronoun putra Hakhamanishiya raucabish thakata aha root semivowel Sing Stems subj subjunctive taumaya Thatiy Darayavush khshayathiya tyaiy upastam abara vashna vardanam vazraka Auramazda hya verb vowel yadiy yatha Zend
Popular passages
Page 43 - ... on foot.' The adjective can become hardened into a neuter substantive, and thus enter the relation of an appositive or a predicate noun. The name of a country is most often expressed by the adjective, generally in the singular. The relative pronoun frequently serves as a simple connective. In this capacity its independent character is lost and it agrees with its antecedent, not only in gender and number, but also in case, thus becoming the equivalent both in meaning and usage of the Greek article....
Page 27 - ... baga vazarka auramazda hya imam bumim ada hya avam asmanam ada hya martiyam ada hya siyatim ada martiyahya hya darayavaum xsaya0iyam akunaus, Dar.
Page 45 - ... and aorist as appear without augment. With the loss of this augment the forms sacrifice their own peculiar character, and take on other notions. After ma prohibitive the sense is that of a subjunctive or optative. The subjunctive has a general future meaning, denoting what is possible and probable. The optative denotes what is desired, in which capacity it is the equivalent of a mild imperative. In a weakened sense it denotes what may or can be. The imperative expresses a command or a desire....
Page 44 - ... made. The indicative is used in the recital of facts, except such forms of the imperfect and aorist as appear without augment. With the loss of this augment the forms sacrifice their own peculiar character, and take on other notions. After ma prohibitive the sense is that of a subjunctive or optative. The subjunctive has a general future meaning, denoting what is possible and probable. The optative denotes what is desired, in which capacity it is the equivalent of a mild imperative. In a weakened...
Page 41 - Says Artaxerxes the great king, king of kings, king of countries, king of this earth, son of Darius the king. Darius was the son of Artaxerxes the king.
Page 46 - The present with duvitataranam denotes that the action was begun in the past and continues in the present. This peculiarity is to be compared with the Latin use of the present with iam diu, etc. B. The indicative forms of the imperfect and aorist appear without augment. With the loss of this augment the imperfect and aorist sacrifice their own peculiar character and take on other notions. After ma prohibitive the sense is that of a subjunctive or optative; thus, haca aniyana ma tarsam (I.) ' may...