Old Persian mav‑ and the Evolution of the Inchoative Suffix in Iranian
In this article the so far unexplained Old Persian verbal form amūθa ‘he fled’ is interpreted as an imperfect built on an inchoative present stem from the Iranian root *mauH‑ ‘to move’. Starting from the observation that, in Old Persian, an outcome ‑θa‑ instead of ‑sa‑ for the Indo-Iranian suffix *-...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2025
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Indo-Iranian journal
Year: 2025, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14 |
| Further subjects: | B
verbal morphology
B Iranian B inchoative B mav‑ B Old Persian |
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