ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

DOI 10.23671/VNC.2018.66.11466

The given article is part of comprehensive research on the history of Ossetian toponymy. The derivational types of Ossetian toponymy are analyzed in the article. The author discusses materials on North and South Ossetia, including unpublished files on Leningor region. This made it possible to illustrate the derivational patterns’ equivalence of every part of Ossetian toponymy. There is insignificant difference between derivational affixes of North and South Ossetia, which might be explained by the influence of either Caucasian or Turkic languages. From various types of Ossetian toponymy’s derivation, only unproductive suffixes were chosen for the present article, and most of them accord with the appellative lexis of the Ossetian language. The great number of reviewed affixes is originally Ossetian or Iranian. In some particular cases their Caucasian legacy can be traced (suffix -sk-, for example). The derivational bases of the majority of the considered toponyms are also original, and it is even possible to discern in them those Iranian stems, which were lost in the Ossetian language long ago. Sometimes these stems occur as part of Ossetian composite words (*zæræ ‘green, grass’, for example). In general, the toponymy of Ossetia is a good source for both the history of the Ossetian language and the ethnic history of the Ossetian people.

Keywords: toponymy, Ossetia, derivation, topoform.

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