A Story of Blood: Remarks on Yaghnobi waxn and Avestan vohu-, vohunıÌÌ-/vohuna-
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The present article analyses the etymological history of Yaghnobi waxn âbloodâ in the framework of the Sogdian background, and offers a new investigation of the pertinent Avestan Sprachgut with close reference to the stem vohu-, n., âbloodâ, its derivatives (vohunıÌÌ-/vohuna-) and compositional forms, considering their textual occurrences and literary implications. This investigation revises old and new etymological hypotheses (e.g., Bartholomae, Henning, Gershevitch, Schwartz, etc.) about the origin of the word for âbloodâ in Iranian, finally suggesting a derivation (with some further alternatives) from *su̯asu̯an-/*su̯asun-, explained as an -n-derivative (or even -n-/-r-) from *su-asu-, âgood lifeâ. In particular, the author discusses the possible interferences with similar Avestan stems meaning âgoodâ (vohu-) on the steps of Schwartz in the framework of a very complex semantic area as the one covering the image of âbloodâ and âbleedingâ in Indo-Iranian after the progressive collapse in the linguistic Iranian area of an ealier inherited word as *ahr(a)- âbloodâ.
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A Story of Blood: Remarks on Yaghnobi waxn and Avestan vohu-, vohunıÌÌ-/vohuna-
In: Iran and the CaucasusSearch for other papers by Antonio Panaino in
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Google Scholar
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The present article analyses the etymological history of Yaghnobi waxn âbloodâ in the framework of the Sogdian background, and offers a new investigation of the pertinent Avestan Sprachgut with close reference to the stem vohu-, n., âbloodâ, its derivatives (vohunıÌÌ-/vohuna-) and compositional forms, considering their textual occurrences and literary implications. This investigation revises old and new etymological hypotheses (e.g., Bartholomae, Henning, Gershevitch, Schwartz, etc.) about the origin of the word for âbloodâ in Iranian, finally suggesting a derivation (with some further alternatives) from *su̯asu̯an-/*su̯asun-, explained as an -n-derivative (or even -n-/-r-) from *su-asu-, âgood lifeâ. In particular, the author discusses the possible interferences with similar Avestan stems meaning âgoodâ (vohu-) on the steps of Schwartz in the framework of a very complex semantic area as the one covering the image of âbloodâ and âbleedingâ in Indo-Iranian after the progressive collapse in the linguistic Iranian area of an ealier inherited word as *ahr(a)- âbloodâ.
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| Abstract Views | 647 | 56 | 23 |
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