532 Professor Rasx’s Remarks on the Zend Language. 
ordinals are in the masculine paoiryé, bityd, prityd ; (Icelandic prisji, geni- 
tive ‘pridja), ttiryd, pugsd, gstwb, haptapd, astemd, ndumé, dagmo, which 
differ much more from Sanscrit than the Latin or Lithuanian do. The 
verbs terminate in dmi, emi, omi, like the Sanscrit, but this termination is 
also frequent in /Zolic and Lithuanian. The conjugation however is nearest 
to the Sanscrit. The imperative has even here the first person: for instance, 
on the plate in AnquetiL’s Zendavesta, tom. i, page 77, the fourth line: 
“¢ Frawardne mazdayacno, Zarapustris, widaewo ahura-thkaeshé ddtai hada datat 
widaewdi Zarapustrai,” &c., which seems not to be the present tense, as 
AnqueETIL considers it, but a solemn vow: Venerabor (semper ut verus) 
Ormazopis cultor, Zoroastris assecla,* daemonum adversarius, sanclte legis 
sectator datum (hic in mundum ?), datum contra deamones ZoroastREM,t &c. 
It is very doubtful whether this datwm contra demones, or datum (nobis) 
antidemonem, be really the book Vendiddd, as Anquetix takes it, or only 
an epithet applied to Zoroaster, but that it is a solemn declaration, or 
perhaps prayer, May I always worship, &c., and not a mere relation, seems 
very clear. 
3. But to return to the language: 7 modern Persian a considerable number 
of radical words are evidently derived from Zend, not Sanscrit, which pheno- 
menon cannot easily be accounted for, if the Zend were a foreign language, 
never spoken in Persia; for instance : 
Zend. English. Persian. Zend. English. Parc 
Gaep6 World ne Qsafs Night ans 
A’cgmané Heaven lect, Drajé Long jie 
Hwarze-qsaet6 Sun Deets yg Zairi Gold 3 
Maoghoé Moon ns Ctaomi I praise aie 
Mahyé Month Mereeté A man oye 
Ctars Star Boas Cashma Eye ee 
Raogsné Light wy Gaoshé Ear Ry 
A’tars Fire we Zafan6é Tongue mi 
Garemo Warm ¢ + Bazwao The arm jl 
* The Zend word Zarapustris is an adjective declined, as paitis, as might be said in Latin 
Zoroastrianus. 
+ The Zend verb governs the dative, not the accusative, as the Latin Veneror. 
