Abstract The past decade has seen the appearance of a number Chinese publications relevant to readership Indo-Iranian Journal . This article briefly introduces some those publications, dealing mostly with Buddhist sources, primarily in Sanskrit, Khotanese and Middle Indic.

Abstract Late Sanskrit lardayati ‘to load’ is probably not inherited from a PIE root *lerd-, as has recently been argued by Kaczyńska (2020), but can be explained denominative of *larda- ‘load, cargo’. This noun could borrowing Bactrian *λιρτο /lirtə/ cargo’ < Old Iranian *dr̥šta-. etymology fits well with the fact that phrased together sthora- ‘pack-animal’, likely another instantiation coll...

When it comes to etymology, two methods come mind: 1. Scientific or linguistic etymology and 2. Folk etymology. However, the Polish linguist Marek Stachowski introduced a new term literature: 3.”Perceptual etymology”. explains term, which he coined for first time in his article titled “Perceptual three Turkish culinary terms Croatian Slovene, social inteligencja ‘intelligentsia’” published Stud...