Kent Roland G. Old Persian: grammar, texts, lexicon

2nd edition, revised. — New Haven (Conn.): American Oriental Society, 1953 (repr. 1982). — xi, 219 p.This volume has been prepared to meet the need for a comprehensive treatment of the Old Persian inscriptions; neither the latest collections of texts, nor the latest lexicon of their vocabulary, nor the latest grammatical treatment represents the evidence of all the material, a considerable portion of which is of very recent publication.
In matters of etymology it has seemed desirable to give a goodly representation to cognates outside the Indo-Iranian; not all those interested in Old Persian are primarily specialists in Avestan and Sanskrit. For greater clarity, stems of nouns and adjectives ending in -i- and -u- have been cited with -i- and -u-, rather than with the strong grade -ay- and -av- customary among Iranists; but verbs of OP and Avestan are cited in the strong grade, though Sanskrit verbal roots are cited in the form fixed by the Hindu grammarians and customary among Sanskritists. The English translations of words and passages in the Grammar, especially in the Chapter on Syntax, frequently vary from the translations which accompany the texts in Part II; this variation is intentional, to bring out more clearly the point for which the word or passage is being cited.