Archaisms in toponymy of Ossetia: the names of grasslands

DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714111

Dzitstsoyty Yu. A. Arkhaizmy v toponimii Osetii: nazvaniya pastbishch . Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 316.

The toponyms, reflecting the stock-raising terminology of Ossetian language (the names of grasslands), that were partly or entirely lost in modern language, are considered in this article. The meanings of some of them are reconstructed by informant’s survey (cyrt ‘monument, tombstone’, kært ‘the animal farm, barnyard’). The other part is reconstructed with the help of etymological analyses (*car- ‘pasture’, *cævæn ‘id.’). Most of the reviewed terms are not presented in the dictionaries of Ossetian language. Not only allows the conducted analysis reconstruct the lost lexical unit or its meaning, but also clarify the pattern of Ossetian pastoral farming.

Keywords

Ossetia, toponymy, ethnography, grassland, landmark, reconstruction, etymology

About the author

Dzitstsoity Yury A.

Cand. Sc. in philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Ossetian Philology and General Linguistics at South Ossetian State University named after A. A. Tibilov, Tskhinvali; doctoral candidate of Moscow State University, Moscow. (Moscow)

dzicc@mail.ru

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Keywords

Ossetia, toponymy, ethnography, grassland, landmark, reconstruction, etymology