Martin A Schwartz

Biographic Data

ID5403473
NAMEMartin A Schwartz
GIVEN NAMESMartin A
FAMILY NAMESchwartz
SIGNATURESCHWARTZ M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0002-2071-1243
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica

    Martin A SchwartzARTICLEIran and the Caucasus2022

    I shall review the various etymological proposals for Armenian skay/hskay ‘giant’/ To be refuted is the pervasive hypothesis that the collocation Paroyr Skayordi represents the name of a Scyth (Assyrian Partatua , Greak Προτοθύης) who is supposedly ‘son ( ordi ) of a Saka ( skay )’, whereby skay ‘giant’ is taken from Saka- ‘Scyth’. Then it will be discussed whether and how skay comes from Middle Persian kay , which will entail an exploration of t…

  • The Indo-European Vocabulary of Exchange, Hospitality, and Intimacy (The Origins of Greek ksénos, sún, phílos; Avestan xsnu-, xsanman-, etc.)

    Open AccessMartin Schwartz, Martin A SchwartzARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2014

    Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)

  • Transformations of the Indo-Iranian Snake-man

    Open AccessMartin Schwartz, Martin A SchwartzARTICLEIranian Studies2012Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article sets forth a history (with literary-textual focus) of the Iranian mythological Snake-man, from the earliest Vedic and Avestan evidence, down to Ferdowsi. The continuous development of the myth in Iran is accompanied by changes in the monster's name, which show linguistic reassociations, while a constant in all of this is the figure's representation as an inimical outsider. The Vedic name of the brute's fortification, the background o…

  • Iranian *L, and Some Persian and Zaza Etymologies

    Martin A SchwartzARTICLEIran and the Caucasus2008References: 1

    This paper aims to establish Proto-Iranian *l by focusing on a variety of words in (I) Persian and (II) Zaza, many of which are of intrinsic etymological interest. In addition, (III) other etymologically noteworthy Zaza words are discussed

  • On Proto- Indo- European- *penk W - ‘hand’

    Martin Schwartz, Martin A SchwartzARTICLEWORD1992References: 1

    This paper expands the evidence and arguments for the view, championed by Franklin E. Horowitz’s contribution to this volume, that *penkWe, the PIE word for ‘five’, is based on a form originally meaning ‘hand’. Horowitz’s view is preliminarily supported by citation of etymological parallels for his analysis of Lat. pignus and propinquus. After discussion of materials submitted by E. Polomé, W. Lehmann, and N. van Brock which show that PIE *penkWe…

  • “Blood” in Sogdian and Old Iranian

    Martin Schwartz, Martin A SchwartzCHAPTERMonumentum Georg Morgenstierne II1982

  • Indo-Scythian Studies, being Khotanese Texts, Vol. VI

    Martin Schwartz, Martin A Schwartz et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1969Cited by: 1

  • W. B. Henning 1908–1967

    Martin Schwartz, Martin A SchwartzARTICLEIndo-Iranian Journal1968

  • Iranian * Draw- “To Lead Astray”

    Open AccessMartin Schwartz, Martin A SchwartzARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1966References: 1

    In a fragment of the Sogdian translation of the Antirrheticus of Evagrius Ponticus, we encounter: mzprt šm'ry ptryt qy 'rdywt 't zwyrtt m'x dbtyq qw γw'n s' for which the original Syriac has: luqbal ḥušbā ṭama'ā damšaddel umapne Ian tūb Iwāṯ ḥṭīṯā Prof. Hansen translates, “Gegen den unreinen Gedanken, der uns verlockt(?) und uns wiederum zur Sünde lenkt”. In view of the one-to-one correspondence of all the other Sogdian words with the Syriac, the…