Zendisch

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Proper noun

Zendisch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Zendisch or Zendischs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Zendische, alternative genitive Zendischen, no plural)

  1. Zend (language)
    • 1834, Jacob Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie (4th edition - 1875), Vol. 1 p. 12 (translation from James Steven Stallybrass Teutonic Mythology)
      Zu gott hat man längst das pers. khodâ (Bopp vrgl. gramm. s. 35) gehalten. wenn dieses, wie aufgestellt worden ist, durch eine starke verkürzung aus dem zendischen qvadâta (a se datus, increatus, sanskr. svadâta) vgl. Dêvadatta Θεόδοτος, Mitradatta = ‛Ηλιόδοτος, Srîdatta hervorgieng, so wäre unser deutsches wort ursprünglich zusammensetzung und von treffendem sinn, wie denn auch die Serben gott als samozazdani boshe, selbsterschaffner gott! anreden.
      The word God has long been compared with the Pers. khodâ (Bopp, comp. gram., p. 35). If the latter be, as has been supposed, a violent contraction of the Zend qvadâta (a se datus, increatus, Sanskr. svadâta, conf. Dêvadatta Θεόδοτος, Mitradatta ‛Ηλιόδοτος, Srîdatta) then our Teutonic word must have been originally a compound, and one with a very apt meaning, as the Servians also address God as samozazdâni bôzhe ! self-created God ;

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