COMMON IRANIAN HERITAGE IN THE OSSETIAN LEXICAL FUND

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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Current Information Archive Peer review guidelines Contacts Address: Pr. Mira, 10, Vladikavkaz, 362040, RNO-A, Russia E-mail: soigsi@mail.ru	DOI: 10.23671/VNC.2019.73.43110 COMMON IRANIAN HERITAGE IN THE OSSETIAN LEXICAL FUND Gutieva, Elmira T. Izvestia SOIGSI. 2019. IIS 34 (73). Abstract: The significance of the Ossetian language for linguistics is determined by the complexity of its historical fate. Its archaic character and early divergence from other Iranian languages arouses the interest of Iranian scholars, and convergent processes with other Indo-European languages attract the attention of Russian and European scientists. The Proto-Ossetian language can be considered as a transmitter of Iranian influence into the European area during the Great Migration of Peoples (in the IVth – VIIth centuries). Of all the tribes that shattered the order of the Roman Empire in late antiquity, the only Iranian-speaking were the Sarmatians and Alans, ancestors of the modern Ossetians. Common Iranian vocabulary has been the analyzed by many researchers, but still there is a number of issues that need clarification, development, a number of etymologies can be subjected to revision. A number of words that have traditionally referred to the Caucasian stratum should be analyzed in greater detail. The work focuses on the degree of preservation of the Iranian lexical fund in the Ossetian language. Different scenarios of the processes of development of common Iranian vocabulary, which are illustrated with examples, are considered. The possibilities of advancing alternatives to already existing etymologies are illustrated by the example of reflexes of the common Iranian root hwar- (xwar-) ‘eat’. Some lexemes could have been preserved in both languages, but due to semantic and phonetic changes they are no longer identifiable, they could have been fossilized in compound words, in phraseological units. In addition, common roots could be lost, and can be restored only via related words in other Iranian languages. Keywords: linguistics, Iranian studies, semantics, generalization, semantic narrowing, cognates, etymology. + References 1. Miller, V. F. Osetinskie etyudy [Ossetic etudes]. Vladikavkaz, 1992. 2. Abaev, V. I. Istoriko-etimologicheskii slovar’ osetinskogo yazyka. V 5 tt. [Historical and etymological dictionary of the Ossetian language. In 5 vols]. Moscow-Leningrad. 1958‑1989, vols I‑IV. 3. Abaev, V. I. Osetinskii yazyk i fol’klor [Ossetian language and folklore]. Moscow- Leningrad, 1949, vol. I. 4. Abaev, V. I. Slozhnye slova – khraniteli drevnei leksiki [Difficult words – keepers of ancient vocabulary]. Voprosy yazykoznaniya [Issues on linguistics]. 1983, no. 4, pp. 75‑85. 5. Benveniste, E. Ocherki po osetinskomu yazyku [Essays on the Ossetian language]. Moscow, 1965. 6. Steblin-Kamensky, I. M. Nazvaniya pakhotnogo orudiya v pamirskikh yazykakh [Names of arable tools in the Pamir languages]. Iranskoe yazykoznanie. Ezhegodnik. 1981 [Iranian linguistics. Yearbook 1981]. Moscow, 1985. 7. Steblin-Kamensky, I. M. Terminy orosheniya v pamirskikh yazykakh [Terms of irrigation in the Pamir languages]. Iranskoe yazykoznanie. Ezhegodnik. 1982 [Iranian linguistics. Yearbook 1982]. Moscow, 1987. 8. Trubachev, O. N. Marginalii k novomu «Etimologicheskomu slovaryu drevneindoariiskogo yazyka» M. Mairkhofera [Marginalia to the new «Etymological dictionary of the ancient Indo-Aryan language» by M. Mayrhofer]. Voprosy yazykoznaniya [Issues on linguistics]. 1994, no. 3, pp. 81‑91. 9. Rastorgueva, B. C., Edelman, D. I. Etimologicheskii slovar’ iranskikh yazykov [Etymological dictionary of the Iranian languages]. Moscow, Nauka, Vostochnaya literatura, 2000, vol. I. 328 p.; 2003, vol. II. 502 p. 10. Turner, R. A Comparative Dictionary of Indo-Aryan languages. London, Oxford University Press, 1962‑1966. 11. Szemerenyi, O. Iranian studies I. KZ, 1959, bd. 76, hft. 1‑2. 12. Tsabolov, R. L. Etimologicheski slovar’ kurdskogo yazyka [Etymologically dictionary of the Kurdish language]. Moscow, 2001, vol. I (A-M). 13. Cheung, J. Ocherki istoricheskogo razvitiya osetinskogo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism]. Vladikavkaz, 2008. 14. Zudin, P. B. Russko-afganskii slovar’ [Russian-Afghan Dictionary]. Moscow, GIINS, 1955. 15. Bailey, H. W. Dictionary of Khotan Saka. Cambridge, 1979. ← Contents of issue


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