μαλο
Bactrian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Iranian *imada.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]μαλο (malo /mal/)
- (proximate) here
- 342 CE, Dated Document A (Corpus of Bactrian Texts), lines 1—2:
- ...καλδο νοβιχτο μο ολοβωστογο μαλο αβο μο ρωβαγγο ϸαρο αβιιοανδαγο σιδο στηβο ριζδο...
- ...kaldo nobixto mo olobōstogo malo abo mo rōbaggo šaro abiioandago sido stēbo rizdo...
- ...when this marriage contract was written here in the city of Rob, in the borough which is called Steb...
Usage notes
[edit]- μαλο is often written before locative prepositional phrases. It may be joined to another word as a prefix (e.g. μαλαβο (malabo)).[2]
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- μαρο (maro)
References
[edit]- ^ Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan (Studies in the Khalili Collection III, Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum II), Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, page 202
- ^ Gholami, Saloumeh (2014) Selected Features of Bactrian Grammar (Göttinger Orientforschungen, III. Reihe: Iranica. Neue Folge; 12)[1], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 150—158