Note 108 — THE TWO SISTERS WHO ENVIED THEIR CADETTE.[98]

This is the older pronunciation of the mod. (Khusrau) “Parvíz”; and I owe an apology to Mr. C. J. Lyall (Ancient Arabian Poetry) for terming his “Khusrau Parvêz” an “ugly Indianism” (The Academy, No. 100). As he says (Ibid. vol. x. 85), “the Indians did not invent for Persian words the sounds ê and ô, called majhúl (i.e. ‘not known in Arabic’) by the Arabs, but received them at a time when these sounds were universally used in Persia. The substitution by Persians of î and û for ê and ô is quite modern.”