Reconstruction:Proto-Ossetic/Aspaurūkɨ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Ossetic/Aspaurūkɨ

This Proto-Ossetic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Ossetic

Etymology

From *áspa (whence Ossetian ӕфсӕ (æfsæ)), from Proto-Iranian *Hácwah + possibly *rū́xs ~ *rukɨ́ (“light”) (whence Ossetian рухс (ruxs)), from Proto-Iranian *ráwxš ~ *rukás (whence Persian رخش‎ (roxš)).[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek Λεύκιππος (Leúkippos, literally “white horse”).

Proper noun

*Aspaurūkɨ

1. a male given name, Asparuk

Related terms

• *Aspagūrɨ (perhaps + *gūrɨ (“terrifying; noble”))
  • → Old Georgian: ასფაგურ (aspagur) (Aspagur, name of a king of Iberia (Georgia) of the 3rd century AD)
    • → Latin: Aspacures

Descendants

• Old Ossetic: *Æspuruk, *Æsfōrug, *Æspӕruk[1]
  • → Bulgar: *Äspärüq (Asparukh, name of a Bulgar khan of the 7th century AD)
    • → Byzantine Greek: Ἀσπαρούχ (Asparoúkh)
      • → Bulgarian: Аспарух (Asparuh)
      • → English: Asparuk
    • → Old Armenian: Ասպար-հրուկ (Aspar-hruk)
    • → Old Church Slavonic: Испоръ (Isporŭ)
  • → Byzantine Greek: Ἀσφώρουγος (Asphṓrougos) (personal name from Olbia)
  • → Old Armenian: Ասպուրակ (Aspurak), Ասպուրակէս (Aspurakēs) (possibly via metathesis[1][2])
• → Old Georgian:
  • → Koine Greek: Ἀσπαυρούκις (Aspauroúkis) (name of a pitiakhsh in Iberia (Georgia) in the 2nd century AD)

Further reading

• Lang D. M. (1987), “Asparukh”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition‎, New York, retrieved 2015-09-06
• Gamkrelidze, Th. V.; Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 468
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “Аспарух”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 18

References

1. Абаев, В. И. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎ (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 157, 177
2. Nalbandjan, G. M. (1977), “Армянские личные имена скифо-алано-осетинского происхождения [Armenian Personal Names of Scytho-Alano-Ossetian Origin]”, in N. Ja. Gabarajev, editor, Вопросы иранской и общей филологии (in Russian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 208