хъӕлӕс
Ossetian
Alternative forms
- гъӕлӕс (ǧælæs) (Digor)
Etymology
Since long connected with Old Church Slavonic гласъ (glasŭ), Russian голос (golos), but the common inheritance from Proto-Indo-European cannot explain the -l- (a rhotacism is expected in Iranian languages) and the second -æ-. More likely we are dealing with a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic гласъ (glasŭ) with expected pleophony.
Noun
хъӕлӕ́с • (qælǽs)
- (Iron dialect) voice
References
- Abajev, V. I. (1973), “qælæs | ǧælæs”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 288