Harold Walter Bailey
(1899-1996) a pioneering British linguist and Iranologist, renowned for his groundbreaking work on Middle Iranian languages, especially Khotanese Saka. See BAILEY, HAROLD WALTER.
- BAGA i. General
i. General Baga- is attested in early and late Iranian with two meanings (1) agent noun “distributor,” glossed by Parsi…
- ARMENIA AND IRAN iv. Iranian influences in Armenian Language
ARMENIA AND IRAN iv. Iranian Influences in Armenian i. General ARMENIAN, the language of the Armenians, which is attested in…
- BALYSA-
BALYSA- (Khotan Saka), bārza- (Tumšuq Saka), a word adapted to Buddhist use for the transcendental Buddha. In pronunciation, b was…
- ARYA
ARYA, an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition. It is used in the Avesta…
- ALANS
ALANS, an ancient Iranian tribe of the northern (Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Massagete) group, known to classical writers from the first…