534 Sino-Iranica 



}ft ^ or Cu-wu Ek 7C- This form can have been transcribed only on the basis of 

 New Persian JuhG5 or JahQS with initial palatal sonant. As is well known, the 

 change of initial y into j is peculiar to New Persian. 1 In Pahlavi we have Yahut, 

 as in Hebrew Yehudl and in Arabic Yahud. A Middle- Persian Yahut would have 

 been very easy for the Chinese to transcribe. The very form of their transcription 

 shows, however, that it was modelled on the New-Persian type, and that it cannot 

 be much older than the tenth century or the age of the Sung. 



1 Cf. Horn, Grundr. iran. Phil., Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 73. 



