PROF Almut Hintze ah69@soas.ac.uk
Professor in Zoroastrianism
PROF Almut Hintze ah69@soas.ac.uk
Professor in Zoroastrianism
Alberto Cantera
Editor
Éric Victor Pirart
Editor
Celine Redard
Editor
This article discusses various proposal for analysing the enigmatic form auuǝ̄mīrā, which constitutes the last word of the Gathic stanza Yasna 49.10. It is then proposed that the word is best understood as *a-u̯i-mī-ra- ‘undiminishing’. Being a compound with privative a- and the preverb *u̯i ‘apart’, it is argued that the word provides a further attestation for the root mī ‘to dwindle, diminish’, which is poorly documented in Iranian languages but well attested in Vedic and other Indo-European languages. The phrase mązā.xšaϑrā vazdaŋhā auuǝ̄mīrā, an attribute of īžā- ‘fat-offering, refreshment’, is translated as ‘(the refreshment) which grants dominion through undiminishing nourishment’. The expression ‘through undiminishing nourishment’ is interpreted as referring to the regularly recurring
ritual performances, whose ‘refreshments’ Ahura Mazdā preserves in his ‘house’ and with which the soul of the righteous is welcomed when it arrives there after death.
Hintze, A. (2024). An enigmatic word in the Gathas: auuǝ̄mīrā in Yasna 49.10. In A. Cantera, É. V. Pirart, & C. Redard (Eds.), at̰ hōi aōjī zaraϑuštrō paōuruuīm ¿Habló Zaraϑuštra? Homenaje a Jean Kellens en su 80º anniversario (125-135). Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios
Acceptance Date | Nov 29, 2023 |
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Publication Date | May 6, 2024 |
Deposit Date | May 13, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | May 13, 2024 |
Pages | 125-135 |
Series Title | Estudios Iranios y Turanios |
Series ISSN | 2386-7833 |
Book Title | at̰ hōi aōjī zaraϑuštrō paōuruuīm ¿Habló Zaraϑuštra? Homenaje a Jean Kellens en su 80º anniversario |
Keywords | Zoroastrianism, Gathas, Old Avestan, Hapax legomena, Zoroastrian eschatology |
Related Public URLs | https://www.biblioiranica.info/estudios-iranios-y-turanios-vol-6/ |
Additional Information | Additional Information : ISSN: 2386-7833 |
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