дӕркъ

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Ossetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *darakā- f, with syncope. Cognate with Sanskrit दारक (dāraka, “boy, son, child; young animal”).

Noun

дӕркъ • (dærk’) (Iron)

  1. heifer (young cow)
  2. kid (young goat) aged 6 to 12 months

Descendants

  • → Svan: დარგ (darg) (← *დარგა (*darga))

References

  • Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 358, 655
  • Abaev, V. I. (1997) “Corrections and additions to the Ossetic etymological dictionary”, in Hans H. Hock, editor, Historical, Indo-European, and Lexicographical Studies (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 90), Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, page 205 of 197–219
  • Cheung, Johnny (2002) Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN, page 178
  • Saɣliani, Medea (2023) Važa Šengelia, Naṭo Šavrešiani, editors, Svanuri nasesxebi leksiḳis poneṭiḳur-ponologiuri da semanṭiḳuri analizi [Phonetical-Phonological and Semantic Analysis of Loan-Words in the Svan Language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 419, derives Svan from Ossetian, unaware of Georgian and Mingrelian
  • Thordarson, Fridrik (2009) Ossetic Grammatical Studies (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte; 788), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 61
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