An Etymological Study of Some Words in the Baboli Dialect

Mazandarani language and dialects belong to the branch of Iran's northwest languages and constitute a group of languages coming from the coast of the Caspian Sea. The dialects in this province are made up of two main eastern and western languages, and owing to the influence of Gilaki Language, the more we move from the east towards the west of the province, the greater the discrepancies in terms of vocabulary and sounds of the languages will be. Baboli dialect belongs to the eastern branch of Mazandaran province dialects which draws striking resemblance to other dialects of the regions from structural, and sound patterns. Collecting these words and receiving their meanings and concepts, in addition to preserving and preventing their destruction, can help to recognize ancient words, knowledge of phonetic-phonological changes and collect the necessary data to compile the etymological dictionary of Iranian dialects. In this research, two methods, field and descriptive-analytical research and linguistic intuition of one of the author who is the speaker of the dialect have been used. Etymological and phonetic analysis of these words show that many of them in the Baboli dialect sometimes have remained unchanged or with a slight change from Middle Persian to the present, and Some of them are even very similar to the words of older languages such as Avestan and Sanskrit.