фурд
Ossetian
Alternative forms
- форд (ford)
Etymology
Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ráyas (“expanse, vastness; ocean”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
фурд • (furd)
- big river
- Synonym of денджыз (denǵyz, “sea”)
Descendants
- → Chechen: хӏорд (hord)
- → Ingush: форд (ford)
References
- Абаев, В. И. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow, Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 485–486
- Thordarson, Fridrik (2009) Ossetic Grammatical Studies (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte; 788), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, →ISBN, pages 26, 34