Abstract

The article examines different attestations of the Old Iranian lexeme *sikā- “sand, stone, break stone” in the Iranian place names. The author attempts to present a tentative list of place-names (river names) having as one of their components the regular reflex of the above-mentioned Old Iranian proto-form (i.e. sī < sīγ, or səγ). Among the mountain names with the same lexeme there is only one reliable form

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