цанс
Ossetian
Alternative forms
- цасм (casm) (Iron)
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *čášma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáćšma.
Old Armenian ցանց (cʿancʿ) may be related.
Noun
цанс • (cans)
- (Digor) loop (of a snare, bashlyk, or while weaving); noose; snare
Related terms
- цӕстӕ (cæstæ)
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 291–292
- Таказов, Ф. М. (2003), “цансæ”, in Дигорско-русский словарь [Digor–Russian Dictionary], Vladikavkaz: Alania
- Čong (Cheung), Dž. (2009), T. K. Salbijeva, transl., Očerki istoričeskovo razvitija osetinskovo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism] (in Russian), Vladikavkaz: Izdatelʹsko-poligrafičeskoje predprijatije im. V. Gassijeva, →ISBN, pages 245–246