TABARICA II Some Mazandarani Verbs

This paper studies the Tabari verbs bauten 'to say', baiten 'to seize', hakerden 'to do', and daptunien 'to throw'. It proposes that the past stem of 'say' is derived from the Old Iranian *gaub-rather than the commonly assumed root *wac-. It postulates also that the nasal element in the present stem ken- 'do' is not exclusively due to the integration of the old participial formant *-ant-, but also because the stem is an offspring of a nasalised Old Iranian present stem, as is the case with Persian kun-. The verb 'throw', largely extinct but appearing in various forms in the 19th-century documentations, is subjected to a comparative analysis against some other Iranian languages.