хӕлаф
Appearance
Ossetian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The origin is uncertain. Has been compared to Romani xolov (“stocking”), Russian халя́ва (xaljáva, “bootleg”), Armenian հալավ (halav, “garment”).
Noun
[edit]хӕлаф • (xælaf)
Derived terms
[edit]- хӕлайфаг (xælajfag)
Further reading
[edit]- Abajev, V. I. (1989) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 165
- Dalalyan, Tork (2009) “The Terms Concerning the City Life Borrowed from Armenian and Georgian into Ossetic (Alanian)”, in Revue des Études Arméniennes[1], volume 33, page 8 of 1–11