Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Old Iranian language attested in cuneiform inscriptions dating from the sixth to the fifth century BC.
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- proper noun The ancestor language of
Middle Persian , and via it of modernPersian language . Attested in Old Persiancuneiform , in the period 525 BCE - 300 BCE.
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Examples
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Earlier this year, it was revealed that Wheeler, 24, hoodwinked his way into Harvard, professing proficiency in Old Persian and claiming that he aced 16 AP exams in high school an "extremely rare" occurrence, College Board spokeswoman Jennifer Topiel told the Boston Globe, along the way fraudulently racking up cash awards and prestigious honors.
Leah Finnegan: How to Get Into Harvard by Lying or: Why Adam Wheeler is a Modern Folk Hero Leah Finnegan 2010
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Aspand is from the Proto-Iranian *svanta (PIE *swentos) via a transparent series of sound changes (and a transparent borrowing from Median, which happened constantly in Old Persian).
Death and daffodils 2010
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Earlier this year, it was revealed that Wheeler, 24, hoodwinked his way into Harvard, professing proficiency in Old Persian and claiming that he aced 16 AP exams in high school an "extremely rare" occurrence, College Board spokeswoman Jennifer Topiel told the Boston Globe, along the way fraudulently racking up cash awards and prestigious honors.
Leah Finnegan: How to Get Into Harvard by Lying or: Why Adam Wheeler is a Modern Folk Hero Leah Finnegan 2010
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The inscriptions that are available to us are from quite late in the Old Persian period, and already show a number of signs of the nightmare that is Middle Persian during which the language turned its whole inflectional system inside out.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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In Old Persian, Pârsa- meant both "Persia" and "Persian", the later being both a noun and an adjective.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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The Sanskrit and Old Persian languages both pronounced the word as arya - and aryan.
Steve Anderson: Tom Metzger & WAR: The Race is On and it Looks Like Heartaches 2008
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The second page of analysis listed several problems with the mummy's inscription that led the scholar to believe that its author wrote in a manner inconsistent with Old Persian.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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Citations from Old Persian have been translated by others as noted.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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Citations from Old Persian have been translated by others as noted.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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Assyrian characters: possibly the message was written in Old Persian cuneiform, but more likely it was in Aramaic.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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