гогыз

Ossetian

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing. From Proto-Turkic *kȫk (“blue”) + Proto-Turkic *kuš (“bird”).

Noun

гогыз • (gogyz) (Iron)

1. turkey

Alternative forms

• гогуз (goguz) — Digor

References

More information

• Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 62