The Word of Nihaštan (see, pay attention) in the Bakhtiari’s Dialect
Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literaturebehzad moeini sam 1 , sara mohammadi Avandi 2
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2 - Persian Literature Department, Humanities faculty. Azad Islamic University. Izeh Branch
Keywords: “Old Iranian”, “Bakhtiari”, “Nihastan”, “Aorist”, “Root”,
Abstract :
Iranian dialects are connected like chain links, each of which has inherited some characteristics of ancient Iranian languages. These dialects are a continuation of the ancient Iranian languages that have their roots in the Indo-Iranian and Indo-European eras. Among these dialects, the Bakhtiari dialect from the group of southwestern dialects is a continuation of Middle Western Iranian and Old Persian, which has inherited their grammatical, lexical, and phonetic features. Indeed, dialects show their originality and ancestry better, and in addition to cultural issues, their grammatical and lexical construction should also be researched. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the word nīhaštan (present stem: niher, niyyar) in Lori Bakhtiari, which does not appear in ancient texts but has remained in the dialect of Bakhtiari. Based on this, the working method is both to find the root of the word and the grammatical construction of this word, which ancient grammatical rule it followed. In the end, it was concluded that this word is derived from the root har and the construction of this word most likely follows the construction of the aorist stem.
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