ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name="Author" content="Vassil Karloukovski"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <title>J. Harmatta, Studies in the History and Language of the Sarmatians - 3.3.2</title> </head> <body> <font face="Palatino Linotype"> <b><font size="4">Studies in the History and Language of the Sarmatians</font></b><font size="4"> <br></font><b>J. Harmatta</b> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">III. THE LANGUAGE OF THE SARMATIANS <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><b>3. The Sarmatian Dialects of the North Pontic Region</b> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><b>9.</b> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">The Old Iranian group of phonemes *<i>vi</i>- also shows a twofold line of development: 1. <i>vi</i>-, 2. <i>i</i>-. <br>&nbsp; </font> <blockquote><font face="Palatino Linotype">Old Iranian *<i>vi</i>- > <i>vi</i>-.</font></blockquote> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><br><img SRC="jh_093h.jpg" height=21 width=72 align=ABSBOTTOM> Panticapaeum, Latyshev. <i>IOSPE</i> II, 29B: ~ Avestan <i>v+d</i>- 'teilhaftig'; probably obtained by suffixation from the short form of a name belonging to the type of Avestan <i>v+dat-gav</i>-. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><img SRC="jh_093i.jpg" height=20 width=63 align=ABSBOTTOM> Panticapaeum, Latyshev. <i>IOSPE</i> IV, 255: in Vasmer's view, the name may be connected either with the Avestan word <i>viata</i>- &#39;Kämpfer&#39; or is the short form of a name which belongs to the <i>Viatspa</i>-type. Since, however, the <i>AirWb</i>. does not know of the word viata- and, moreover, since in the name <i>Viatspa</i>- the element <i>viata</i>- has never been explained, it seems a likelier explanation that the name&nbsp;<img SRC="jh_093i.jpg" height=20 width=63 align=ABSBOTTOM> developed from Old Iranian <i>vista</i>- or the short form of some compound in which this word is a constituent element (cf. <i>e. g.</i> Avestan <i>vistM.fraorYtay</i>- 'der das Glaubensbekenntnis kennt'). <br>&nbsp; </font> <blockquote><font face="Palatino Linotype">Old Iranian *<i>vi</i>- > <i>i</i>-.</font></blockquote> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><br><img SRC="jh_093j.jpg" height=20 width=94 align=ABSBOTTOM> Olbia, Latyshev, <i>IOSPE</i> I, 65: ~ Avestan <i>v+saiti</i>, see above. <br>&nbsp; </font> <center><table BORDER CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=3 COLS=1 WIDTH="80%" > <tr> <td><font face="Palatino Linotype"><i>Additional Notes</i> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><i>To p. 93.</i> On <i>viata</i>- 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: <i>Handbuch des Altpersischen</i>. Wiesbaden 1964. 154.</font></td> </tr> </table></center> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="jh3_3_8.html">Previous</a>] [<a href="jh3_3_10.html">Next</a>] <br>[<a href="index.html">Back to Index</a>] </font> </body> </html>