Suggestions for A New Reading of Some Words from The Pahlavi Text “Draxt ī Āsūrīg”

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Poorchista Goshtasbi Ardakany
Ph.D Candidate of Ancient Iranian Languages ​​/ Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The present study examines and reads a few words from the Pahlavi text of the “Draxt ī Āsūrīg”, which can be read differently. The Assyrian Tree is a boastful poem between a goat and a palm tree written in Parthian or Parthian Pahlavi, but its oral transmission and writing in Book Pahlavi script allowed Middle Persian words to enter it as well. The Pahlavi script is such that some of its characters can be read in several different ways, and each researcher offers a different theory about the reading of a word. In this research, the new reading of some words as well as the readings of previous researchers have been given and analyzed. This article tries to make a new suggestion about reading a few words. The basis of these suggestions is the existing words in Middle Persian, Parthian and New Persian dictionaries, and the historical grammar of word formation and etymology has also been used in the new reading of words. This research has been done in order to better understand some words and concepts in the text of the Assyrian tree.

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