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96 belonged to the Indo-European. Such sounds are represented in these languages simply by a—thus, Indo-European, *é-bhero-nt (Gr., ); Sanskrit, ábharan; Old Persian, abara(n). In Avestan this a suffered later euphonic changes.

Herodotus little knew that the Persian language was but a sister tongue of his own. How closely it resembles the Greek, and how far it varies from the mother language, the Indo-European, the following examples of comparative morphology serve to illustrate: Persian, aspa ("horse"); Indo-European, *éḱwo; Sanskrit, áçva; Greek, ; Latin, equo-s.

Persian, bar ("bear"); Indo-European, bher; Sanskrit, bhar; Greek, ; Latin, fero.