Complex derivatives

<Extracted from the Part II, section 3, Complex derivatives of the book Pārsīg Language (The so-called Pahlavi): Parts of Speech, Word Formation, and Phonology, Sade publication, 2017, written by Raham Asha>

Complex derivative is a word that derives from a compound, and itself is not a “real” compound. For example, grānvināhīh ‘grievous sinfulness’ is the abstract of a bahuvrīhi grān-vināh ‘(guilty) of grievous sin’, and the suffix -īh is added to the compound and not to the last element, vināh ‘sin’.

Sometimes, a derivative is formed by adding not an affix but a “word” to another word. For example, °ravišnīh forms a number of nominal abstracts (it renders Av. °tāt-).

drustravišnīh ‘wholesomeness, health’ (Av. drvatāt- f. ‘firmness, health’).
drustravišnīh ī tan. Y 9.19

pur-ravišnīh (Av. pourutāt- f. ‘large amount’) from *paru- ‘numerous, many’.
purravišnīh ī mardōmān ud gōspendān. Bd 22