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The Term ročvarmh in a Turkish Manichaean Fragment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

A. V. Williams Jackson
A. V. Williams Jackson*
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Columbia University
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Abstract

[The term means ‘Breastplate of Light’, and is to be connected with an Avestan *raočå. vār∂θman-. Discussion of the phonetic and morphologic questions raised by this interpretation.]

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Language , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1929, pp. 97 - 99
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Copyright © 1929 Linguistic Society of America

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1 A collection of material relating to brahm, ‘robe’, is reserved for presentation elsewhere.

2 Merely for the metaphor, but not for any other reason, compare St. Paul's ‘put on the armour of light’ (Rom. 13. 12).

3 While the latter transposition (mh for hm) recalls the familiar Indian pronunciation of Brahma as ‘Bramha’ we may omit this from the discussion here.

4 Gauthiot rightly explains the particular four instances of the group mh final cited in his case, namely, ***ßwmh, ‘world’, drγmh, ‘lie’, nrmh, ‘submission’, tmh, ‘darkness’, as representing here an older mah, the respective preforms being *bhūm-as, *drōgh-mas, *narm-as and tam-as. Our own case, however, is otherwise and certainly is to be explained by the common dialectic transposition referred to above.

5 See Müller, ‘Ein Doppelblatt’, APAW 39-40, Berlin, 1913.

6 See Hübschmann, Arm. Gram. 1. 12, Arm. ašxarh, ‘country’ < Av. xšaθra, TPhl. šahr; murhak ‘document’, cf. TPhl., NP muhr ‘seal’ (p. 197) with nirh ‘slumber’, Skt. nidrā- (p. 204); šnorh ‘grace, favor’ < Av. xšnaoθra- (p. 214), and other examples, p. 26, 31, 50, 59; cf. also Hübschmann, Pers. Studien 204-6.

7 According to Theodore bar Khoni, Primal Man himself ‘spread before him the light’, as a protection, when going to do battle with the powers of Darkness. See Pognon, Inscr. Mandaïtes 186; Cumont, Recherches 1.18; cf. Schaeder, Studien 343.