عنوان

YAv. Spitiiura- and the Compositional Form of PIE *u̯r̥h1-en- 'Lamb' in Indo-Iranian

شماره

LA112534

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

YAv. Spitiiura- and the Compositional Form of PIE *u̯r̥h1-en- 'Lamb' in Indo-Iranian

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Alexander Nikolaev

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper argues that the second member of the Avestan compounded personal name Spitiiura- goes back to the Indo-Iranian word for 'lamb': Ved. úran-, Mod. Pers. barra. The name 'having shining white lambs' can be shown to have mythopoetic parallels in other Indo-European traditions. It is argued that the expected second member *-u̯r̥h1n-ó- formed from simplex *u̯r̥h1en- with a thematic suffix was analogically remodeled as *-u̯r̥h1-ó- in pre-Indo-Iranian times: the model was provided by second members of compounds made from n-stems which lost the nasal due to the so-called "ašnō-rule", e.g. Ved. víparva- made from *péru̯on- or YAv. ka-mərəda- made from *ml̥h3dhon-. Similar analogical remodeling is found in Ved. aṣṭavr̥ṣá- from vr̥ṣán- and many other cases. The compound further underwent a laryngeal loss by the so-called "νεογνός-rule" (cf. Ved. tuvigrá- 'swallowing much' < *-gwr̥h3-ó-) and the resulting sequence *-u̯r̥o- was resyllabified as *-uro-. Therefore, Av. ºura- can represent a "compositional form" of PIE *u̯r̥h1en- 'lamb' and Bartholomae's analysis of Spitiiura- as 'having shining white lambs' may still carry the day. This paper argues that the second member of the Avestan compounded personal name Spitiiura- goes back to the Indo-Iranian word for 'lamb': Ved. úran-, Mod. Pers. barra. The name 'having shining white lambs' can be shown to have mythopoetic parallels in other Indo-European traditions. It is argued that the expected second member *-u̯r̥h1n-ó- formed from simplex *u̯r̥h1en- with a thematic suffix was analogically remodeled as *-u̯r̥h1-ó- in pre-Indo-Iranian times: the model was provided by second members of compounds made from n-stems which lost the nasal due to the so-called "ašnō-rule", e.g. Ved. víparva- made from *péru̯on- or YAv. ka-mərəda- made from *ml̥h3dhon-. Similar analogical remodeling is found in Ved. aṣṭavr̥ṣá- from vr̥ṣán- and many other cases. The compound further underwent a laryngeal loss by the so-called "νεογνός-rule" (cf. Ved. tuvigrá- 'swallowing much' < *-gwr̥h3-ó-) and the resulting sequence *-u̯r̥o- was resyllabified as *-uro-. Therefore, Av. ºura- can represent a "compositional form" of PIE *u̯r̥h1en- 'lamb' and Bartholomae's analysis of Spitiiura- as 'having shining white lambs' may still carry the day.

تاريخ نشر

2021

توصيف ظاهري

145-162

عنوان

Indo-Iranian Journal

شماره جلد

64/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1572-8536

اصطلاح موضوعی

ašnō-rule

اصطلاح موضوعی

etymology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Iranian mythology

اصطلاح موضوعی

laryngeal loss

اصطلاح موضوعی

personal names

اصطلاح موضوعی

possessive compounds

اصطلاح موضوعی

Purūravas

اصطلاح موضوعی

Spitiiura

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Alexander Nikolaev

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15728536-06402003

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y