Old Avestan lexicography
Language Log 2025-03-11
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[This is a guest post by Hiroshi Kumamoto] The Last Words of Helmut Humbach (1921-2017) 1 When an eminent classicist, the late Martin L. West published The Hymns of Zoroaster: A New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran, London: Tauris, 2010, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst wrote (Review in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2011, p. 379),"This […]