Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 45.1.1

45.1.1

Doghter. In some mountainous tracts of Persia, where they speak pure Persian, without any admixture of Arabic, (and the whole Shah-Nameh, that book of one hundred and twenty thousand verses, has but one Arabic word, and it was written so early, as about the year six hundred of the Hedjra, or about 1260 of the Christian Era); in those mountains, I say, it is neither Hemshir, which is an epithet, nor unlike Com-milk or Comilk, not Qhaer, but Sus. Little Sister, Sussec. My little Sister, Sussek-men. Burd, Burdan: which signify, he carried: and to carry and bear. Chabiden. Proverb: To Nan Chabide, & Coss Gahide, Mi-qhahi. Sipaden, and Sipidin, to fall drop after drop. Istaden. And that anciently it was Astanden, may be evinced from Curtius, who says that Darius-Codomanus was an Astanda of the late King's, that is, as he explains it, one who stood always before the Monarch ready to execute his commands. A ENGLISH. Bearer Bird, which a Welsh-man, and a Sommerset-man, would pronounce Pird, just as they pronounce Peard for Beard. Name To Tame