Avestan
/əˈvɛst(ə)n
/adjective
Relating to the Avesta or to the ancient Iranian language in which it is written, closely related to Vedic Sanskrit.Fire worship was central to the Aryans and to their Vedic and Avestan expressions, as was the tradition of the holy drink - the Vedic soma and the Avestan haoma.
noun [mass noun]
The Avestan language.This blog post cites this paper in support of a particular theory of historical change from Avestan to Modern Persian....
- Born at Liège, he entered the University there before moving to Louvain to study Sanskrit, Pli, and Avestan.
- Old Persian and its close sister Avestan, what we have of ‘Iranian Part One’ in any real way, are early Indo-European, bristling with inflectional paradigms that barely look acquirable.
Rhymes
- work-like
- work like a charm
- work like a Trojan (or Trojans)
- workload
- work-loom
- workman
- workmanlike
- workmanly
- workman's club
- workmanship
- workmaster
- workmate
- work measurement
- workmen's club
- work-minded
- work-mindedness
- workmistress
- work name
- work of art
- work one's ass (butt, etc.) off
- work one's fingers to the bone
- work one's passage
- work one's way through university (or college, etc.)
- work one's way up
- work one's will on/upon