Re: Iranian loanwords in Early Aramaic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Juha Savolainen" <juhavs@...> wrote:

>
> Indeed, it is not surprising that words from Old Persian,
> the language of the ruling ethnos, found their way in the
> language of the Aramaic scribes (and the laguage of the
> Aramaic-speaking population, in general). But where do
> these words originally come from? What is their etymology
> and what is their origin, Iranian or something else?

I quickly skimmed pages 256 - 261, but none of the loanwords
stood out as unusual. Which specifically did you have in mind?

You might also want to post your question to the Indo-Iranian
linguistics list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo_iranian .

David