534 SING-IRANICA
At g or Cu-wu 1 X. This form can have been transcribed only on the basis of New Persian JuhW or Jahüô with initial palatal sonant. As is well known, the change of initial y into j is peculiar to New Persian.' In Pahlavi we have Yahüt, as in Hebrew Yehüdi and in Arabic Yahüd. A Middle-Persian Yahüt would have been very easy for the Chinese to transcribe. The very form of their transcription shows, however, that it was modelled on the New-Persian type, and that it cannot be much older than the tenth century or the age of the Sung.
1 Cf. HORN, Grundr. iran. Phil., Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 73.
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