Associations to the word «Zend»

Wiktionary

ZEND, proper noun. Exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the Avesta's texts.
ZEND, proper noun. (obsolete) (erroneous) (in the 18th and 19th centuries) The Avestan language.

Dictionary definition

ZEND, noun. An ancient Iranian language.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky