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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
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> Does somebody knows the etymology of Ossetic avg?
Johnny Cheung gives:
avg | avgæ 'steklo', 'butylka' ('glass', 'bottle').
< *a:p(a)ka:; cf. M. yówGa, Y. yóuGo 'water' (< *a:paka:-,
IIFL II: 272), W. yupk, (?) yápak, Zaz. awke (f.!) 'water'
(Malmisanij 1987: 26b), MP a:bge:nag 'crystal, glass'
(borrowed in Sogd. ''pkyn-, ''pkyn'k, (Man.) ''pky(nyy)
'?'), Khz. 'bkyn(n)k 'glass'.
David