цасм
Ossetian
Alternative forms
- цанс (cans) (Digor)
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *čášma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáćšma.
Old Armenian ցանց (cʿancʿ) may be related.
Noun
цасм • (casm)
- (Iron) loop (of a snare, bashlyk, or while weaving); noose; snare
Related terms
- цӕст (cæst)
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
- Бигулаев, Б. Б.; Гагкаев, К. Е.; Кулаев, Н. X.; Туаева, О. Н. (1970), “цасм”, in Касаев А. М., editor, Осетинско-русский словарь [Ossetian–Russian Dictionary], 3rd edition, Ordzhonikidze: Publishing House “Ir”
- 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