zend
Definition of zend:
part of speech: noun
The anc. Persian tongue- the language in which the Avesta is written.
Usage examples:
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Daruj, Puyri of Zend
C. S. Rafinesque in "The American Nations, Vol. I.". -
2. In the Zend and Persian languages of Iran.
C. S. Rafinesque in "The American Nations, Vol. I.". -
But, perhaps, we may find in Persia what we lack in India; and as the modern Persian is descended from the Zend and as the Zend is a sister to the Sanskrit, Persia may, perhaps, supply such a locality.
Robert Gordon Latham in "The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies".