Zend-Avestaic, adj.

zend-avestaic
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Revised 2018

# † Zend-Avestaicadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective Zend-Avestaic mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective Zend-Avestaic. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the 1810s.

### Where does the adjective Zend-Avestaic come from?

Earliest known use

1810s

The only known use of the adjective Zend-Avestaic is in the 1810s.

OED's only evidence for Zend-Avestaic is from 1816, in the writing of George Faber, Church of England clergyman and religious writer.

### Nearby entries

1. zemstvo, n. 1865–
2. zemstvoist, n. 1904–
3. Zen, n. & adj. 1727–
4. Zen, v. 1968–
5. zenana, n. & adj. 1761–
6. zenana cloth, n. 1885–
7. Zen Buddhist, adj. & n. 1917–
8. Zend, n. & adj. 1700–
9. zendaletto, n. 1789–
10. Zend-Avesta, n. 1630–
11. Zend-Avestaic, adj.1816
12. Zend-Avestan, adj. & n. 1871–
13. Zend-Avestic, adj. 1864–
14. Zendic, n. & adj. 1771–
15. Zendician, n. a1833–66
16. Zendicism, n. 1697–
17. Zendish, adj. & n. 1802–1921
18. Zendist, n. 1877–1907
19. zendo, n. 1914–
20. Zener, n.¹ 1934–
21. Zener, n.² 1949–

## Meaning & use

Obsolete rare.

1. 1816
   Of or relating to the Zend-Avesta, or the ancient Iranian language in which the Avesta is written.
   Stressed as Zend-Aveˈstaic.
   1. 1816

      > The materials of the Zend-Avestaic history seem to be genuine.

      G. S. Faber, Origin of Pagan Idolatry vol. I. p. xxxii
   1. Zend 1762–
      Of or relating to the Avestan language or to the Zend-Avesta; of or relating to Zoroastrianism; Zoroastrian. Also: designating the Avestan language…
   2. Zend-Avestaic 1816
      Of or relating to the Zend-Avesta, or the ancient Iranian language in which the Avesta is written.
   3. Avestan 1856–
      Of or relating to the Avesta (Avesta, n.) or to the ancient Iranian language in which it is written (cf. Avestan, n.).
   4. Zend-Avestic 1864–
      Of or relating to the Zend-Avesta, or the ancient Iranian language in which the Avesta is written.
   5. Avestic 1865–
      Of or relating to the Avesta or the ancient Iranian language in which it is written; = Avestan, adj. Cf. Zend-Avestic, adj.
   6. Zend-Avestan 1871–
      a. adj. Of or relating to the Zend-Avesta, or the ancient Iranian language in which the Avesta is written; b. n. the language in which the Avesta…
   7. Gathaic 1891–
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Originally published as part of the entry for Zend-Avesta, n.

Zend-Avesta, n. was revised in June 2018.