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The 8th and 9th book of the Denkard give an overview of the Avesta as it was available at the time. Whereas the 8th book lists the content, the 9th book provides a lengthy summary on a number of its nasks [6] In addition, the Rivayats, a series of epistles from the 15th - 17th century, also list its content but do not provide further summaries ...
Within an attested language, particular word forms directly known to have been used (because they appear in the literature, inscriptions or documented speech) are called attested forms. They contrast with unattested forms , which are reconstructions hypothesised to have been used based on indirect evidence (such as etymological patterns).
Classical Armenian (Armenian: գրաբար, romanized: grabar, Eastern Armenian pronunciation [ɡəɾɑˈpʰɑɾ], Western Armenian pronunciation [kʰəɾɑˈpʰɑɾ]; meaning "literary [language]"; also Old Armenian or Liturgical Armenian) is the oldest attested form of the Armenian language. It was first written down at the beginning of the ...
Approximate historical distribution of the Semitic languages in the Ancient Near East.. Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and North Africa, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula and Carthage from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity, with some, such as Arabs ...
The oldest surviving fragment of a text dates to 1323 CE. [2] The Avesta texts fall into several different categories, arranged either by dialect, or by usage. The principal text in the liturgical group is the Yasna, which takes its name from the Yasna ceremony, Zoroastrianism's primary act of worship, at which the Yasna text is recited
Abau Language Papuan Languages Abaza Northwest Caucasian Abenaki Eastern Algonquian Abkhaz or Abkhazian Northwest Caucasian Abujmaria or Madiya or Maria Dravidian Acehnese Malayo-Polynesian Adamorobe Sign Language Language isolate Adele Kwa Adyghe or West Circassian Northwest Caucasian Afar Cushitic Afrikaans Germanic Afro-Seminole Creole English-based creole Aguaruna Chicham Ahom Kra–Dai ...
British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings daddy longlegs, daddy-long-legs crane fly: daddy long-legs spider: Opiliones: dead (of a cup, glass, bottle or cigarette) empty, finished with very, extremely ("dead good", "dead heavy", "dead rich") deceased