Word Meanings - AVESTAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. - -n.

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• AVESTA
  The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• AVESTAN
  Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. - -n.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• ZEND-AVESTA
  The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date. (more info) its zend, or interpretation, in a more modern and intelligible
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach