III. THE LANGUAGE OF THE SARMATIANS
3. The Sarmatian Dialects of the North Pontic Region
9.
The Old Iranian group of phonemes *vi- also shows a twofold line
of development: 1. vi-, 2. i-.
Old Iranian *vi- > vi-.
Panticapaeum,
Latyshev. IOSPE II, 29B: ~ Avestan vīd-
'teilhaftig'; probably obtained by suffixation from the short form of a
name belonging to the type of Avestan vīdat-gav-.
Panticapaeum,
Latyshev. IOSPE IV, 255: in Vasmer's view, the name may be connected
either with the Avestan word višta- 'Kämpfer' or is the short form of a
name which belongs to the Vištāspa-type.
Since, however, the AirWb. does not know of the word višta- and,
moreover, since in the name Vištāspa-
the element višta- has never been explained, it seems a likelier
explanation that the name
developed from Old Iranian vista- or the short form of some compound
in which this word is a constituent element (cf. e. g. Avestan vistō.fraorətay-
'der das Glaubensbekenntnis kennt').
Old Iranian *vi- > i-.
Olbia,
Latyshev,
IOSPE I, 65: ~ Avestan vīsaiti,
see above.
Additional Notes
To p. 93. On višta- cf. E. Benveniste: JA 227 (1936) 229, O. Szemerényi: BzN 2 (1951) 165 ff.. H. W. Bailey: JRAS 1953. 101–103, W. Brandenstein—M. Mayrhofer: Handbuch des Altpersischen. Wiesbaden 1964. 154. |
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