Abaev, V. I. Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language (Istoriko-etimologicheskiy slovar osetinskogo yazyka). Vol. 3: S–T’, 1979. In Russian and Ossetian.

В. И. Абаев.
Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка. В 4-х томах.
Академия наук СССР. Институт языкознания.
Том 3: S–T’.
Москва ; Ленинград : Изд-во Акад. наук СССР. Ленингр. отд-ние, 1979.
358 с. Увеличенный формат. Твердый издательский переплет.
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V. I. Abaev.
Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language (Istoriko-etimologicheskiy slovar osetinskogo yazyka). In 4 Volumes.
Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Institute of Linguistics.
Volume 3: S–T’.
Moscow; Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad Branch, 1979.
358 pp. Enlarged format. Publisher's hardcover.

This 1979 third volume of Vasily Abaev’s magnum opus is a monumental achievement in Indo-European and Iranian philology. The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the Ossetian lexicon, including the arrangement of exhaustive etymological entries for words beginning with the letters S through T’. Abaev, the preeminent authority on the Scythian-Sarmatian world, traces the biography of each word through millennia, linking modern Ossetian (Iron and Digor dialects) to its ancient Alanic roots and broader Indo-Iranian cognates.  As a vital primary source, this volume documents not only linguistic transformations but also the cultural history and folklore of the Ossetian people, as Abaev frequently employs mythological and ethnographic parallels to illuminate word origins. This work remains an indispensable tool for scholars of the Caucasus, Iranian studies, and comparative-historical linguistics. Published in a prestigious enlarged academic format by the Academy of Sciences, this volume is a significant bibliographical rarity and a cornerstone for any serious research library dedicated to the languages of the Near East and the Steppe.