Reconstruction:Old Ossetic/sag
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Old Ossetic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Ossetic *sāgɨ, from Proto-Scythian *ṣāki, from Proto-Iranian *šākah (“something forked, having branches”).[1][2][3] Cognate with Khotanese [script needed] (śśājsano, “fork”), Sogdian 𐫢𐫀𐫄𐫍 (šʾɣh /šāx/, “branch”), and perhaps further to Lithuanian šakės (“forks”), if not an Iranian borrowing.
Noun
[edit]*sag
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Cheung, Johnny (2002) Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN, page 222
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) “śśājsano”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 396
- ^ Abajev, V. I. (1958–1995) “sag”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 12: “Восходит к иран. *sākā- ― Vosxodit k iran. *sākā-”
Categories:
- Old Ossetic terms inherited from Proto-Ossetic
- Old Ossetic terms derived from Proto-Ossetic
- Old Ossetic terms inherited from Proto-Scythian
- Old Ossetic terms derived from Proto-Scythian
- Old Ossetic terms inherited from Proto-Iranian
- Old Ossetic terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Old Ossetic lemmas
- Old Ossetic nouns
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