Digoron Word-List

Extract

The purpose of the following word-list is to serve as a glossary to “A Phonetic Study of Western Ossetic (Digoron)”, the entries being words cited as examples in that article. Since my Ossetic informant and I had no common language in which we both felt at ease, I had at the time of writing the “Phonetic Study” reluctantly decided not to assign English meanings to these examples, as I doubted my ability to do so without risk of serious inaccuracy. The majority of the Digoron words in the article were therefore identified not by meaning but by reference to romanized orthographic forms. Professor H. W. Bailey, however, after reading the proofs, expressed the opinion that the usefulness of the “Phonetic Study” for Ossetologues and others would be increased if English meanings could be given, and he most generously offered to criticize my tentative translations, which were based upon notes taken at the time of the investigation and upon Wsewolod Miller's Ossetisch-Russisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch.