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Jassic
Etymology
From Alanic. Compare Iron Ossetian да бон хорз (da bon xorz); Digor Ossetian да бон хуарз (da bon xwarz); dialectal дӕ (dæ)/да бан хорз (da ban xorz). The first word is a pronoun; the last word means "good", and is noticeably more similar to Iron хорз (xorz) than Digor хуарз (xwarz).
Interjection
daban horz
- a greeting roughly equivalent to good day! sometimes alternatively translated as good morning!
Further reading
- Thordarson, Fridrik (2009) Ossetic Grammatical Studies (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte; 788), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, →ISBN, pages 19, 188
- Bielmeier, Roland (1993) “Das Alanische bei Tzetzes”, in W. Skalmowski and A. van Tongerloo, editors, Medioiranica: Proceedings of the International Colloquium organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from the 21st to 23rd of May 1990 (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 1–28, quoting the 1422 Jassic wordlist