Altpersischer Wortschatz by Walther Hinz

Review by: Roland G. Kent

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1948), pp. 151-153
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Altpersischer1XV ortschatz. By WALTHER HINZ. the user is not eoneernedwith the relation of
Pp. viii + 160. Leipzig: E01WMISIONSVERLAG forms,he finds the wordidentifiedgrammatieally,
F. A. BRoaeHvus,1942. (Abhandlungenfur translated into German,and aeeompanied by useful
die Kunde des ZIorgenlandes, information on proper names and on dubious
XXVII. 1.)
words, and a list of the oeeurrenees. Sinee the
This convenientvolume, most copies of which publicationof Tolman'sAneient Persian Lexieon
weredestroyedin the bombingsof Leipzig,consists, in 1908, there has beenno othereompleteglossar-
after the preface and a list of abbreviationsof except SukumarSeil's in his Old Persian Inseaip-
journals, of six sectzons: ( 1) a list of the OP tions (Caleutta,1941), and Sen's is quite unreli-
inscriptions,with brief descriptionof each and a able,besideshavingall the disadvantagesof Hinz's
statementwhere the best text or edition is avail- (see my review,Lg. 18. 154-156).
able (pages 1-10); (2) the transliterationof OP I now take up the items whieh seem to me to
(11-13); (3) the cuneiformsyllabaryused in the needremark,prefacingeaehwordwith the number
OP inscriptions (14-16); (4) bibliographyfrom of the page on which it oeeurs and following it
1911 to the time of publication(17-39); (5) the with the plaee of its oeeurreneein the inseriptions
Wortschatzor lexicon itself (40-155); (6) a list if desirable;at the end of what is quoted from
of the OP words,alphabetizedfrom the end. Hinz thereis a eolon,after whiehmy ownremarks
As for the bibliography,it is to be remembered are gilTen. Refereneeswithoutnameof authorare
that the book appearedin 1942, and that since to my own artieles.1 40 abaran XPh 17: mis-
then there has been a fair amountof publication; writing for abaraha (Lg. 13. 298), and not the
of the articles that might have been included, reverse;there is no instaneeof final n written in
I note the absenceonly of Buck,Lg. 3.1-6 (1927), OP. Therefore-ha is eorreetin DNa 19-20, and
on DH, and of certaill reviews. Hinz's aphabet- abara(n) (not abaran,with writtenfinal n) should
izing, which shows also his transcription, is be restored in DSe 18. 41 abtsVDS 1. 86 nsf.
st b c d f g h 7<l
t k 1 m n p r s s s t t 1iw y z z; my 'Flussbett'; so Hinz with a question-mark:but
own practice, which conforms more nearly to see J.NOF62.269-270. 43 adaraya:on adaraiya
generalcustom,uses c x c 0 v j for his c h s t w z. atlclsimilar orthographies,see JAOS 62.271-272.
In quoting, I shall use his s+Tstem, but my own 43 adartyand similar passives:see Sehaeder,Un-
in the attachedremarks. He placesin parentheses garisehe Jahrbucher 15. 560-563 ( 1936); they
letters (n, h, an occasional, rarely others) that should be normalized-iya, as -ya- passives with
representsoundspronouncedin OP but not repre- aetive endings. 44 afuwayaDNb 38 nsf. 'Ent-
sentedin the script; in this I shall here follow his scheidung' (so Hinz, dubiously): read rather
practice. OccasionaldiSerencebetweenhis iden- aruvayainst. sg. ' with aetion,'ef. JNES 4.44-52.
tifying abbreviatioilsfor the inscriptions, and 46 ahanzysubj. pres. 2d sg. ' du seiest': errorfor
mine,will causeno confusion;in the rareinstances 1st sg. 'may I be.' 47 ahsta DPe 23 adj. nsf.
of potential misunderstanding,both abbreviations 'behutet, heil,' with refereneeto Hz. Apl 70 for
will be given. reading:but Hz. takes as substantive' Sieherheit.'
In the lexicon itself, Hinz arrangesall words
and forms in a strictly alphabeticalorder, which 1 In addition to the usual abbreviations for periodieals,
has the inconveniencethat forms of the sameverb I use also the following for eertain seholars and their
occurin severalplace3:thus from kar- ' do, make,' works:
we Snd those forms beginningwith akar-on page Hz. = Ernst Herzfeld,
48, then after an interveningwordthosewith aku- AMI = Archaologisehe Mitteilungen aus Iran.
on 48-50, those with ca- on 74, one with kar- on ApI = Altpersisehe Insehriften.
100, those with krt- on 102, those with kun- on Tm. = H. C. Tolman,
103. Forms of verbs that have compounds,like Lex. = Ancient Persian Lexieon and Te2rts.
bar- ' bear,'show even greaterseparation. But if XVb. = E. E. Weissbach,
KIA = Keilinschriften der Achameniden.
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I prefer the old interpretationaxsata adj. nsf. IIinz's interpretation,ZDMG 85.228): rather a
' unharmed.' merely emphatic particle, for OP nowhere es-
50 amahama(n)ta DB 4. 92 pret. 3d pl. 'sie pressesthe adversativeCbut' in the extant texts,
erlernten': a very dubiousword,ef. anotherpossi- though there is ample opportunity. 77 daSyuwa
bility JAOS 62. 269. 52 [an]iyata DSj 3, whieh DB 1. 34 'im Lande': rather dakyauva, cf. loc.
Hinz aeeeptsdubiouslyfrom my artiele JAOS 51. gaAava and (without postposition)Babirauv Mar-
214-21S, with same restorationindependentlyby gaus. 79 [Datuwa]hyakya DB 4. 85 is given as
Wb. in a letter: I now prefer [partlv]iyaAa,as based on Wb. WIA 71: Wb. 70-71 has [Dattz]-
proposedby Brandenstein,WZKAI39. 45 (1932) . in his text andan alternativesuggestion[Dadutza]-
54 apariyaya(n) DB 1.23 'sie wurdenin Zueht in his note and translation; any restorationis
gehalten': this is Inerely the doubly augmented basedon the Elam. and Akk. transliterations.
preterit to 116 partyclit(iy) 'er aehtet, halt (das 81 duwitaparnam DB 1. 10 adv. ' in zwei (GFe-
Gesetz) ein, wandelt (im Gesetz),' cf. JAOS 35. schlechter-)Folgell,zwiefaltig': I prefer' one after
331-336 (1917), Lg. 13.303 (1937; whieh Hinz the other, in succession,'cf. Bartholomaeapud
eites!). 58 artutcaXPh 41 ete.: see now Lg. 21. Tolman,Lex. 102. 83 frasvta nsm. 'auserkoren':
223-229. 59 asa sctruvaDSf 40-41 nsm. 'Blei,' in both passagesI agree with IIz. AMI 3. 9-10,
after Hz. ApI 299: I hasTe alwaysinsistedthat the ApI 156-158, that the text is really frasarB, and
seeond word began with a trace of da, and now that the word is followedby 3d pers. SadayataXy.
Hinz writes me that he aeeepts Duehesne-Guille- 85 gatwaabl. sg. m. ' vom Throne (weg) ': inter-
min's interpretationin BSOS 10. 925-927 (1942) pretation correct, but form really loc. gaSava,
as asa daruv' ebony' (lit. ' stone-wood'), to whieh functioningas abl.; cf. haca[: Bab]irauvDSf 33,
view I also aeeede, withdrawing my previous haca: Ffi(n)dauwDSf 44.
opinion (JAOS 51. 208, 53. 18-19). 93 hsapawaDB 1. 20 asf. + wa ' sowohl des
62 ataha?tazaBh. 4.90 ' Botsehaft' (dubiously Nachts': but the acc. would be xsapam-va(cf.
Hinz, after Morgenstierne,Aeta Or. 1.252): ef. retentionof final m beforeconsonantof encliticin
JAOS 62. 268. 63 aura DPe 24 adv. ' hernieder, gatSam-cct maniyam-ca DB I. 65), and we have
herab,'after Benveniste,BSLP 30. 72-73: I still herethe gen. zsapahin a rhymingpair with raucah
preferthe old interpretationA(h)ura 'by Ahura,' ' by day' in rauca-pati-va, bothcasesdenotingtime.
despite the laek of the seeond part of the divine 98 tsuwamDNd 2 ' Bogenscheide,Bogenhulle,'
name. 63 A (h ) urakya: SIazdahaXPe 10 : the Hinz doubtfully:the word, though not of known
original stone laeks the dividerbetweenthe words etymology,must mean ' battle-ax,'cf. JNES 4.
(so Cameron,fromthe photographs). 64 A(h)ur- 233. 98 ka pron. nsm. alwaysafter tuvam 'du,'
arnazd[atya]DB 4. 44 adj. nsm. ' als Ahuramazda- so ' du, wer [du auch seiest] ': probablyratheran
Bekenner,'after Wb. KIA 62-63: the following instrumentaladverbfrom the same stem, general-
grtatyaiyseemsnot to be in Hinz'slexieon. I still izing the precedingpronoun (:IDernapud Caland,
prefer Auranxazd[cFrn. upara]rtaXyaty,ef. JAOS z. Syntax der Pron. im Av. 47).
62. 27a, 63.67-68. 65 awaDB S. IS, 31°. DNa 39 104 ma. . . ma [. . . ma] DPd 18-19: shouldbe
pron. dem. npm. ' jene,' [awa] DB S. 22° apm. 19-20, and only a part of the ma is lost. 107
' jene ': e2ceptthe first eharacterill DB S. IS, the nx2ntyamca DB I. 65 asn. coll. ' uncl die Gehofte,'
e2amples in DB are entirely restorations,and cf. the followingword148 wttabisca inst. (-acc.)
shouldbe avaXyfor both cases; ef. forms eited on pl. m. ' und die Hofhorigen,Hintersassen': I read
66 by Hinz. In DNa 39 the wordis fem. and not rather v0btsV-can inst. as acc. (like Hinz), and
mase. 68 awatatsvata DB 4. 72: on this dubious translate' the householdpropertyand the houses'
word,cf. JAOS 62. 2 v2-273. 68 awazanDB 2. 13 in chiastic order to the preceding,abicarisV gai-
' sie erschlugen': errorfor -ana( n ) . Wamca ' the pastures and the herds' (so IIinz:
73 brazmantyaSPh 41, 51 4 'mit Inbrunst, ' Weidelandund das Herdellvieh'). 107 JfIargauw
dureh Andacht' (dubiously Hinz): cf. Lg. 21. DB 4. 25, DBj 1 ' in Margiana': should be Slar-
.'?23-229.73 BU ( bumty)nsf. ' die Erde': may gauv. 107 [iVaryazanakya] DB 3. 88: dependson
have been bt.timq/esVn
as the form is nowherewritten the Elamiteandtracesof the firstand third charac-
in full. 74 ci[na] DSe 36 adv. ' sondern,viel- ters in Rawlinson'ssqueezes,whichwouldwarrant
mehr' (my restoration,JAOS 58.116-117, but also VarA^azanahya ' AIonthof the Wolf-men.'

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110 tmati]st[amsam] DB S. 27: read rather
[ma0]ista[sam],as nom. S[ku(n)]xa immediately
follows; cf. JNES 2. 113. 110 m[rtaSya] DB 5.
36, after Wb. ZfA 46. 56: text certainly correct,
but Wb.'sinterpretation,'of him dead,' is right,
and Hinz's 'im Tode,' loc. sg. n., is wrong. 112
nama nsm. and nsn., nam2 nsf. ' namens, mit
Namen': ratherndmaloc. sg. suffisless nama(n),
and nam2 acc. Skt. nama, both denoting speci-
fication, and specializedfor use with following
class nouns in the genders indicated by Hinz.
112 [nawa] DSz. c Il nom.pl. ' Schiffe,'after Wb.
:IiIA 104: rathernava, with Tolman, Les. 52,*
Skt. navas. 114 pa[(n)caman] DB S. 3: read
rather [itam], JNES 2.109-110. 115 parau-
wa(?)ya DPe 15: delete, as the stone has para:
draya,cf. Cameron,JNES 2. 307-308. 119 [d] -
pasa DSe 48: read rathera: pas2[va].
122 [pir]uwa DSf 51, with S:onig,Burgbau66-
68: rather [ismar]uv from Elam. is-ma-luywith
E:z. AMI 3. 74-75. 124 s2. . .da. . . DB 4. 54:
Tm.'s emendationand restoration,Lex. 26, k2[ra-
hya: 0]2[hy . . . ] is quite satisfactory. 124 saiy-
mamA1I (Hinz's Art. I Silb.) adj. nsm. ' silbern':
a dubious word in a dubious ialscription. 127
stunaya adj. asm. 'saulern, Saulen-': dubiou3
form, perhapsa defectivelywritten loc. in -2y2,
denoting specification. 128 sfy2ta: out of alpha-
betic order. 128 skautim DB 4. 65: accordingto
S:ing and Thompson,actually sakauraima,but of
course identical with skautirn DSe 39-40 (page
125).
133 tyata DB 1. 23, DSf 42, pron. rel. isf.: rel.
in DSf 42, but def. art. in DB I.23, cf. Hinz 54
s. v. apariyaya(n). 133 tadayamaiy: see abovo
on 83 frmvt. 134 tarmts: misprint for tarmis.
136 [(h)u]casmaasn. 'dasAuge': theu- is an
erroneousinsertionacc. to Benveniste,TPS 1945.
53-54, quoting Jackson, IF 2a. 182; because of
final -, which is impossibleas a writing for nom.-
acc. of -man- stem, normalizecasamto stem casa-
(Lg. 19.225-226). 136 (h)ufrast2diy DB 4.69,
with -diy as enclitic pronoun after Benveniste,
BSLP 31. 64: rather-diy Av. zt, Skt. hi, JAOS
35. 351-352 (1917; so also AIorgenstierne,Acta
Or. 1.248-2a3 [1923] ). 137 UpadramakyaDB
1. 74 gsm.: whether-dram-or -darm-dependson
whetherwe restoreElam. tir or {ar at the critical
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pointnand in the absence of evidence I prefer
Upadarmakya,which is easily etymologized. 137
upariy[ayam] DB 4. 64-6S, with Wb.: I prefer
the u}anya[xsaya]iy of Tm., Lex. 8S, based on
Jackson'sexaminationof the :Rock. 138 usiya
ga[ta]w2 DNb 3o lsm. ' in der Urteils-Statte':
rather ' with understanding in the place (of
battle),' cf. JNES 4. 47-50. 139 ufa ' and,' cited
from XPh 24, 3S, 38, and A2Sd4: the first three
passageshaveuta, and the fourthis beforea lzreak,
other copies of the same inscriptionshowinguta-
maXyand ufamay(cited by Hinz under ufamaXy).
141 (g)uwarazmiya nsf. ' Chorasmien,'given
as alternative to (H)uvarazmts, each occurring
twice: but perhapsthe prior is the older form irl
-z, (H) uvarazmty,cf. Lg. 19. 223. 142 [ ( h) uz]-
banamDB 2. 74 asm. ' die Zunge,'with Wb. and
Tm., for :Iiingand Thompson'sharbdnam:rather
h(i)zbanam with Meillet, MSLP 19.58-59, cited
by E:inz; cf. Lg. 19. 226. 144 wasabaraDNd 1
nsm. ' Streitasttrager' (dubiouslyHinz): see now
JNES 4. 233, where the meaning ' bowbearer ' is
proved. 149 wiya: mrdaDB 5. Il ' er vernichtete'
with wronglyinserteddivider,as emendedby Wh.
ZfA 46. SS for daXy: mrda: this I accept, with-
drawingmy own interpretationJAOS 62. 273.
IS0 yadimantyaXy XPh 47 yadiy+ subj.prels.
med. lst sg. 'wenn du erwagest,dellkst': Ist sg.
is misprint for 2d sg., as his translationshows.
151 yanaiy XV 22 adv. 'darauf' (raumlich), so
:Kent Lg. 9. 96: I did not give the meaning
' darauf,' which is demonstrative,but gave the
relative ' whereon.' I now normalize yaniy as
equivalentof Av. yahmi, Skt. yasmin, with -n-,
extendedfrom the instr. form. 154 ztwaSyaDB
S. 19-20,35 lsn. ' im Leben': not neuter,but masc.,
' of him living,' cf. on Il0 m[rtaSya].
ZIanyof the variationswhich I have suggested
from Hinz's views are of course personalviews,
and not necessarilycorrect. Proof of this is seen
that in a number of instances I have departed
from my own previouslyexpressedviews as given
n prlnted articles. But it is only by the free
. .
discussionof such difEerences of opinionthat final
agreementon moot points may be reaclled,and
therebyadvancesin scholarshiptnaybe made.
ROLAND G. I<ENT
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA