Professor Rasx’s Remarks on the Zend Language. 531 
has all these letters in genuine Persian, not Arabic, words preserved even 
till this day; for instance, W%s1 (dftdb) “ the sun ;” jLT (dghaz) “ begin- 
ning ;” .\eo (dehkin) “a villager;” +0 (dokhter) “a daughter ;” ;\ (a2) 
“ of;” sh} (shang) “rust.’? This coincidence in sound with the other 
Irénian languages, and difference from the Indian ones, tends strongly to 
restore the Zend from India to the old place assigned to it by AnquetiL 
pu Perron, according to the common hypothesis. 
2. The grammatical structure or system of inflexions in the Zend, corres- 
ponds not only with the Sanscrit, but in some instances approaches nearer 
to the Phrygian class of languages (that is to say, Greek and Latin, with 
their different dialects); in others it is quite peculiar, which seems to show 
that it is a distinct language, to be arranged between the Sanscrit and Greek. 
The first class or declension of nouns in Sanscrit, viz. those in an, ah, dé, 
the Greek nouns in oy, oc, 7, are here terminated in @m, 6, @. The other 
classes in Sanscrit and Greek are also found here, terminating in is, us 
(corresponding to the fourth declination in Latin), &c. The neuters in os, 
us, for instance, y<ves genus, are here terminated in ¢, and have a very peculiar 
inflexion. 
As a specimen of Zend declension, I shall here insert some cases of the 
singular of three different classes of substantives. 
Nom. Zarapustro-paitis Master. Mano Mind. 
Voc. Zarapustra-paiti (Man6) 
Ace. Zarapustrem-paitim ano 
Instr. sceseseseseecsace Managha 
Dat. Zarapustrdai-paite Managhe 
Abl. Zarapustrath-paitois Managho 
Gen. Zarapustrahe-paitdis Managhe. 
The two last paradigms are the Sanscrit patih and manah, Greek evs. 
The dative in dis the Greek «, the genitive in ois is very different from 
the Sanscrit in eh or yah. The neuters in d have substituted gh for s in 
Sanscrit and rin Latin. The adjectives are declined in the same manner 
as the substantives. The superlative terminates in ¢emd, Sanscrit tamah. 
The pronouns are in some instances more regular than those in Sanscrit : 
for instance, the accusative singular of the Sanscrit word idam “ this,” is here, 
neuter zmath, masculine mem, feminine imam. ‘The numerals also are by 
no means mere variations of the Sanscrit ones: for instance, qswas ‘* six,” 
Sanscrit shas ; hapta “seven,” which is the Greek xz, Sanscrit sapta. The 
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