A Grammatical Sketch of Ossetic

JUST OF ABBREVIATIONS

A — Koijomth ApCetf, Fag3HPTH asMfeiparOHfl [Collected Tales].

Ordjonikidze , 1 934.

Apn>. — MpOH apri>aeyTTa9 [Iron Tales]. Ordjonikidze, 1954.

£$X. Xssc. — /€$X88PflTfci XaecaHse [National Epic, adapted by A. Kubalov.].

Bp. — BpHT-BMaTbi F,JL6hi3Rhix r bO, YauMHCTae [Works]. Ordjonikidze,

1947.

HC — fluropcKHe CKa3aHHS no 3annc5iM fluropqeB VI. T. CoCneBa,

K. C, TapaaHOBa h C. A. TyrocaeBa [Digor Legends in the
transcriptions of the Digors I. T. Sobiev, K. S. Gardanov,
and S. A. Tukkaev] with translation and commentary by Vse-
volod Miller, Moscow, 1902.

Eb . — EBaHreJiwe [New Testament],

K — KocTa, IIojiHoe cogpatiHe ccmHHeHHH [Complete Works],

Vol. I. Mo scow -Leningrad, 1939.

M — MaJiHTH Tey^prM, Hpaxfr . Ordjonikidze, 1935.

Mfl — Max 4£T [Our Time]. (Magazine, Ordjonikidze).

MST — Funf ossetische Erzahlungen in digorischem Dialekt , heraus-

gegeben von W. Miller und R. von Stackelberg. St. Peters-
burg, 1891.

H — Hwrep, y£Mfl3aeBraeTa8 [Poems]. Ordjonikidze, 1936.

HC — HapTCKMe CKa3 soma [Nart Legends]. Ordjonikidze, 1946.

OT — OceTHHCKHe TeKCTH [Ossetic Texts]. Collected by Dan.

Conkadze and Vas. Tsoraev. Published by Academician A.
Sifner. St. Petersburg, 1868.

— QCGTMHCKMe 3TK)flH [Ossetic Studies], by Vsevolod Miller.
Parti. Texts. Moscow, 1881.

03n . — B. M. AtfaeB, H3 oceTHHCKoro onoca [From the Ossetic

Epic], Mo scow -Leningrad, 1939.

C — raajwara CeiCBa, YauMbiCTM aaMfoiparoHfl [Collected Works].

Ordjonikidze , 1 947.

COnaM . — naMHTHMKM HapoflHoro TBop^ecTBa ( ceBepHHx ) OCeTHH

[Monuments of the National Creativity of the (Northern) Os-
setes], II-IV. Ordjonikidze, 1927-1929.

$ — ^MflMy^er . [Herald], (Magazine, Stalinir).

X. Kaaaer — FIjimth XapwTOH, yaJiaxM3fci Kaflaer [Song of Victory]. Ord-
jonikidze, 1950.

U, — TaeflMaTH UoMax'BX'B , /£B3aepcT yaijMHCTse [Selected Works].

Ordjonikidze ,1951.

q — ^epneH, MaecryHTae fl3ypHHu; . HoBeJiJiaeTae [Short Stories].

Stalinir, 1935.

JOOITaM. — naMHTHHKM HapoflHoro TBopuecTBa kxkhhx oceTMH [Monu-

ments of the National Creativity of the Southern Ossetes],
I-IH. Stalinir, 1929-1930.

A Grammatical Sketch
of Ossetic

by
V. I. Abaev

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