« Hunting the hapax: Sir Harold W. Bailey (1899-1996) », in : Nicholas Sims-Williams, ed., Indo-Iranian languages and peoples. London, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 1-17. (Proceedings of the British Academy 116).
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1This paper – the first Sir Harold Bailey Memorial Lecture delivered on 16 December 1999, the hundredth anniversary of his birth – offers biographical details that were not included in Emmerick’s biography of Bailey (see Abs. Ir. 22 (1999), c.r. n° 31) and outlines his attitude towards philological research. Emmerick also reinterprets a Khotanese passage in the lyrical verses of the Staël-Holstein roll that was translated by Bailey as early as 1930 and again in 1951 (StH 73 : khvā nä vijsye välakä brrī mīrāra-ṃ aṃgä hamarä gūsīṃdä bäśä ‘If I do not see you, (my) little beloved one, my limbs will die, all my joints will be loosened’), expresses his favour for the translation ‘holy’ of Avestan spəṇta-, which Bailey understood as ‘possessing supernatural knowledge’ and compared with Kh. śśandaā- ‘earth’ etc., and corrects Bailey’s equation of Kh. ttaira haraysä to Av. (taēra-) harā- bərəz- (see Abs. Ir. 24 (2001), c.r. n° 11).
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Mauro Maggi, “« Hunting the hapax: Sir Harold W. Bailey (1899-1996) », in : Nicholas Sims-Williams, ed., Indo-Iranian languages and peoples. London, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 1-17. (Proceedings of the British Academy 116).”, Abstracta Iranica [Online], Volume 25 | 2004, document 17, Online since 15 March 2006, connection on 15 May 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/4054; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.4054
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