چکیده:
«Jahsh» (in Middle Persian ĵahišn), which, in addition to its famous meaning, has many evidences in Middle Persian and Pahlavi in the sense of «luck and fortune», is a word with an unknown derivation; although some scholars have sought its root for years, none of their opinions on this matter is correct. In this writing, the effort has been made to prove that the derivation of «jahsh» and some words sharing the same root such as «jastan» (in Middle Persian ĵastan) and ĵadag should be placed in the root yat-, whose original meaning is «to stand firm» and has acquired new meanings due to some semantic evolutions.
خلاصه ماشینی:
In this writing, the effort has been made to prove that the etymology of "jahsh" and some words sharing the same root, such as "jastan" (in Middle Persian astanj) and adagj, should be found in the root -yat, whose original meaning is "to stand firm," and which has acquired new meanings due to some semantic shifts.
The authors of the book "Investigation of the Etymology of Verbs in the Persian Language" (Mansouri and Hassanzadeh 1387: 111) have accepted Mackenzie's opinion, which he stated in an unpublished lecture note that ĵastan is from 45 Ghaem First Sample Page 14 24/07/2014 vi-ah* is, from the root -ah "to cast/throw".
Cheung (2007: 473-474), taking into account what Belli wrote in the margin of Hurn's book, has hypothesized that Persian jastan might be derived from the root -zgad (meaning "to hasten", "to run", "to walk", "to gallop on horseback") which has relatively much evidence in Sogdian and some New Iranian languages.
Benveniste, besides the evidence he has provided from Middle and New Iranian languages (such as -dya in Parthian) in the sense of "reaching," sometimes translates -yat and its causative form, -taiiaya, in the Avesta as "reaching the right place" and "bringing to the right place.