къух
Ossetian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps a borrowing from Vainakh. Compare Chechen куьг (küg), Ingush кулг (kulg).
Noun edit
къух • (k’ux)
References edit
- Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 644
- Desheriev, Yunus D. (1963) Сравнительно-историческая грамматика нахских языков и проблемы происхождения и исторического развития горских кавказских народов [Comparative-historical grammar of the Nakh languages and the problems of the origin and historical development of the mountain Caucasian peoples] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 56