кӕрт

Ossetian

Etymology

A Wanderwort of uncertain ultimate origin: compare Chechen керт (kert, “fence”), Ingush карт (kart); Georgian ქართა (karta, “cattle pen”), Mingrelian ქართა (karta), Svan ლი-ქჷრთ-ე (li-kərt-e, “to fence”); Hungarian kert (“garden”), Northern Khanty карда (karda, “courtyard”), картам (kartam, “fence”), Northern Mansi карда (karda, “courtyard”), Komi-Zyrian карта (karta, “cattle pen”), Moksha карда (karda, “cowshed”), Erzya кардо (kardo), кардас (kardas, “courtyard”); Chuvash карта (kart̬a), Bashkir кәртә (kərtə), Tatar киртә (kirtä); dialectal Russian ка́рда (kárda). Further note the reflexes of Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-.

Noun

кӕрт • (kært)

1. court, courtyard

References

• Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 55
• Abajev, V. I. (1958) “kært”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 586–587
• Christol, Alain (2019) “Ossète et Hongrois: les Emprunts Scythiques”, in Nartamongæ‎^[2] (in French), volume 14, numbers 1-2, Paris and Vladikavkaz, →DOI, page 27 of 16–33
• Joki, Aulis J. (1973) Uralier und Indogermanen (Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia; 151) (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, pages 269–270
• Schmidt, Gustav (1927) “Zur Frage der Ossetisch-Ungarischen Lehnwörter”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen. Anzeiger‎^[3] (in German), volume 18, numbers 1–3, a review of Hannes Sköld, Die ossetischen Lehnwörter im Ungarischen (1925), Helsingfors, pages 94–95
• Schmidt, Gustav (1928) “Zur Erforschung der ossetisch-ungarischen Lehnbeziehungen”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen. Anzeiger‎^[4] (in German), volume 19, numbers 1–3, Helsingfors, page 27
• Sköld, Hannes (1928) “Ungarisch und tagaurisch”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen. Anzeiger‎^[5] (in German), volume 19, numbers 1–3, Helsingfors, pages 5, 9
• Thordarson, Fridrik (2009) Ossetic Grammatical Studies (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte; 788), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 23
• Шагиров, А. К. (1977) К. В. Ломтатидзе, editor, Этимологический словарь адыгских (черкесских) языков‎^[6] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 128

Further reading

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*kɨ̆rt(w)V̆”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[7], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
• Цховребов, В. К. (1986) Скотоводческая терминология в осетинском языке (in Russian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 74–76