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Some Khotanese Past Participles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. C. Graham
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One of the difficulties in the study of the verbal system of a language that is comparatively little known can be finding the appropriate past participles to go with present stems or the reverse. This difficulty faces those working with Khotanese. H. W. Bailey has only recently assigned ārsta- to ārīh- ‘to share’ and pärsta- to prïh- ‘to conceal’. Some further suggestions I make here for the first time.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , October 1966 , pp. 612 - 617
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1966

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1 Henning, W.B., ‘Das Verbum des Mittelpersischender Turfanfragmente’, ZII, IX, 2, 1933, 192.Google Scholar

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8 See Konow, S., SPA W, 1934, 440.Google Scholar

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16 It has not been noticed hitherto that the phrase drreha jsä brrīyikya vīrāṣṭä in the Staël-Holstein Miscellany (64, KT, II, 75) provides a clear parallel with drrāha hā bīkā ttu däśu in E.

17 Rather ‘in the direction of the beloved’, as Kh. uses loc. of the goal of motion (see Emmerick, R. B., BSOAS, XXVIII, 1, 1965, 32) and däśā- means ‘direction’ not ‘region’.Google Scholar

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22 Reading and interpretation due to H. W. Bailey.

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30 JRAS, 1954, 29–30; TPS, 1954, 132–3.

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