A Study in the Word-Formation of non-Copulative Compounds in the Avestan Language: The case study Mihr Yašt

Words represent different languages ​​and when they are disappeared the language loss is happened. Words are essentially constructed from the word formation and it means it is a process which repeatedly increases the number of words in a language and produces the words in different methods. In other word if the morphs are combined and the new words are made, that is a word formation. This process is very creative in the ancient Iranian languages especially Avesta language. MihrYašt is one of the important and old Yašts in Avesta which the special characteristic of Yašts can be seen in it. It is a second long Yašt so it has a wide and varied range of the words and that helps us to study the language much better. This method could help us to word formation in Persian language today. In this article, first it is briefly described the different methods word formation in Avesta language and then the compound words in Mihr Yašt are studied.