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        <title>Abaev Dictionary: entry <hi rendition="#rend_italic">X˳ycaw</hi></title>
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      <publicationStmt xml:base="../pubstmt.xml"><p>Translated from Russian in 2020 by Oleg Belyaev (ed.), Irina Khomchenkova, Julia
    Sinitsyna and Vadim Dyachkov.</p></publicationStmt>
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        <bibl xml:lang="ru"><author>Абаев, Василий Иванович</author>.
            <title>Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка</title>. Т. <biblScope unit="volume">I</biblScope>. A–Kʼ. <pubPlace>М.–Л.</pubPlace>:
            <publisher>Наука</publisher>, <date>1958</date>. С. <biblScope unit="page">??–??</biblScope>.</bibl>
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        <form xml:lang="os-x-digor" type="dialectal"><orth>Xucaw</orth></form>
        <sense xml:id="sense_d3875e69">
          <abv:tr xml:lang="ru">
            <q>Бог</q>
          </abv:tr>
          <abv:tr xml:lang="en">
            <q>God</q>
          </abv:tr>
        </sense>
        <re>
          <form type="lemma"><orth>X˳ycæwtty X˳ycaw</orth></form>
          <sense>
            <tr xmlns="http://ossetic-studies.org/ns/abaevdict" xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#rend_doublequotes">Бог Богов</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xmlns="http://ossetic-studies.org/ns/abaevdict" xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#rend_doublequotes">God of Gods</q>
            </tr>
          </sense>
        </re>
        <note xml:lang="ru" type="comment">. Божества дохристианской типологии (частично принявшие
          имена христианских святых), такие как <ref type="xr" target="#entry_Wastyrǵi"/>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_Wacilla"/>, <w>Æfsati</w>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_K0yrdalægon"/> и др., наделены индивидуальными и конкретными
          функциональными и даже психологическими характеристик ками. В отличие от них <oRef/>
          мыслился как нечто весьма абстрактное, как deus otiosus</note>
        <note xml:lang="en" type="comment">. Deities of pre-Christian typology (who partly adopted
          the names of Christian saints), such as <ref type="xr" target="#entry_Wastyrǵi"/>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_Wacilla"/>, <w>Æfsati</w>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_K0yrdalægon"/> etc. are endowed with individual and specific functional
          and even psychological characteristics. Unlike them <oRef/> is conceived as something very
          abstract, as deus otiosus</note>
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            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">ʒyrd <oRef>X˳ycawy</oRef> raz radda
              īnnæmæn</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">перед богом она дала слово другому</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">she gave her word to another before God</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Коста"/>
              <biblScope>18</biblScope></bibl>
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          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>X˳ycawæj</oRef> arfægond næ
              festæm</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">нет на нас божьего благословения</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">there is no God’s blessing upon us</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Коста"/>
              <biblScope>30</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>X˳ycaw</oRef>, fæʒæxsyn dyl
              mæxī!</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">боже, отдаюсь под твое покровительство!</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">God, I surrender myself under your
                protection!</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Коста"/>
              <biblScope>118</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>X˳ycaw</oRef> me ‘udīsæn</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">бог мне свидетель</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">God is my witness</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Коста"/>
              <biblScope>139</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">nyllæw nyn tærxony, dæ <oRef>X˳ycawmæ</oRef>
              ‘skæs!</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">рассуди нас бога ради! (<q>...взгляни на
                  бога</q>)</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">judge us for Godʼs sake! (<q>...look at
                God</q>)</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Коста"/>
              <biblScope>88</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">xūrmæ sæxī tavtoj, xūr ysfældīsæg
                <oRef>X˳ycawæn</oRef> arfæ kodtoj</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">они грелись на солнце (и) благословляли бога,
                создавшего солнце</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">they basked in the sun (and) blessed the God
                who created the sun</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Сека"/>
              <biblScope>23</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">æmbal kæmæn næj, ūcy
              <oRef>X˳ycaw</oRef>...</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">бог, которому нет равного</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">God who has no equal</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Брит."/>
              <biblScope>52</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">Elqan <oRef>X˳ycawy</oRef> kʼax ærgævdæg kæm
              fedtaj, axæm wydī</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">Елкан был самый дошлый (<q>подрезающий ноги у
                  бога</q>), какого только ты видел</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">Elqan was the most eager (<q>cutting the legs
                  of God</q>) you have ever seen</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Čerm."/>
              <biblScope>62</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">X˳ycawy xorzæx dæ wæd</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">да будет на тебя божья милость</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">may God have mercy on you</q>
            </tr>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">kæd X˳ycawy fænda...</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">если будет божья воля...</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">if it is Godʼs will...</q>
            </tr>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>X˳ycawy</oRef> nīcæwyl</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#rend_singlequotes">без вины</q>
              <?oxy_comment_start author="jvsin" timestamp="20230503T183035+0300" comment="когда меняю кавычки, уходит автоматическая запятая"?>
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#rend_singlequotes">ни за
              что</q><?oxy_comment_end ?>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#rend_singlequotes">without
                guilt</q>
              <?oxy_comment_start author="jvsin" timestamp="20230503T183035+0300" comment="когда меняю кавычки, уходит автоматическая запятая"?>
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#rend_singlequotes">for
              nothing</q><?oxy_comment_end ?>
            </tr>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>X˳ycawy</oRef> ræstæj</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#rend_singlequotes">без вины</q>
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">будучи прав перед богом</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#rend_singlequotes">without
                guilt</q>
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">being right before God</q>
            </tr>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>X˳ycawæj</oRef> myn ard baxær, zæxxæj —
              somy</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">поклянись мне богом, присягни землей</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">swear to me by God, swear by the earth</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_ЮОПам."/>
              <biblScope>II 16</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>X˳ycawy</oRef> stæn</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">ей-богу</q>
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">клянусь богом</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">by God</q>
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">I swear to God</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Munk."/>
              <biblScope>42</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">mæ X˳ycawy xaj!</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">мое божество!</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">my deity!</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Munk."/>
              <biblScope>59</biblScope><note xml:lang="ru" type="comment">. — См. <ref type="xr" target="#entry_xaj"/></note><note xml:lang="en" type="comment">. — See <ref type="xr" target="#entry_xaj"/></note></bibl>
          </example>
          <example>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">styr k˳yvd yskodtoj sæ <oRef>X˳ycawy</oRef>
              xaj æn</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">они устроили большой пир в честь своего
                божества</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">they made a big feast in honor of their
                deity</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Munk."/>
              <biblScope>70</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
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            <usg xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><lang/></usg>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>Xucaw</oRef> din ma bakoma!</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">да не послушает тебя бог!</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">May God not listen to you!</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_ОЭ"/>
              <biblScope>I 98</biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example xml:lang="os-x-digor">
            <usg xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><lang/></usg>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">ci fæccudæncæ, <oRef>Xucaw</oRef>
              zonuj</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">сколько они прошли, бог знает</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">how far they went, God knows</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_MSt."/>
              <biblScope>10<hi rendition="#rend_subscript">10—11</hi></biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example xml:lang="os-x-digor">
            <usg xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><lang/></usg>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">о, Xucawti mæxe Xucaw!</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">о мой бог богов!</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">oh my God of Gods!</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_MSt."/>
              <biblScope>14<hi rendition="#rend_subscript">9</hi></biblScope></bibl>
          </example>
          <example xml:lang="os-x-digor">
            <usg xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><lang/></usg>
            <quote xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><oRef>Xucawmæ</oRef> iskovæn</quote>
            <tr xml:lang="ru">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">помолимся богу</q>
            </tr>
            <tr xml:lang="en">
              <q xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">letʼs pray to God</q>
            </tr>
            <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref type="bibl" target="#src_MSt."/>
              <biblScope>31<hi rendition="#rend_subscript">1</hi></biblScope></bibl>
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        </exampleGrp>
        <etym xml:lang="ru">Идея единого бога вошла в духовный мир алан вместе с христианством. В
          дохристианском пантеоне алан фигура верховного бога не распознается. Были <q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">отраслевые</q> божества, носившие наименования <mentioned xml:lang="xln"><w>zæd</w> (<w>yazata-</w>)</mentioned> и <mentioned xml:lang="xln"><w>dawæg</w> (<w>wi-tāwaka-</w>)</mentioned>, и эти наименования употреблялись, как
          правило, во мн. числе: <mentioned xml:lang="xln"><w>zædtæ</w>, <w>dawǵytæ</w></mentioned>.
          Поскольку христианизация алан произошла на Кавказе (X в.) в условиях тесных контактов с
          местными народами, уже раньше принявшими христианство, естественно искать именно на
          Кавказе источник <lang>ос.</lang>
          <oRef>xucaw</oRef>. Действительно, мы находим здесь в ряде сакральных терминов базу <w type="rec">xuc(а)-</w>. Ср. <mentioned xml:lang="lez"><lang/>
            <w>xucar</w>
            <gloss><q>бог</q></gloss>
            <note type="bibl">(<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_Услар"/>
                <biblScope>VI s. v.</biblScope></bibl>)</note></mentioned>, вероятно,
          лексикализованное мн. число от <mentioned xml:lang="lez"><w>xuc-</w></mentioned>,
          наподобие <mentioned xml:lang="fa"><lang/>
            <w>yazdān</w>, <w>Xuca-dat</w>
            <gloss>название общества в Вост. Дагестане</gloss></mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="ka"><lang/>
            <w>xucesi</w>
            <gloss><q>старейшина</q></gloss>
            <note type="bibl">(<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Марк"/>
                <biblScope><hi rendition="#rend_italic">11</hi> 27</biblScope></bibl>)</note>,
                <gloss><q>священник</q></gloss>
            <note type="comment">(превосх. степень от неупотребительного <w type="rec">xuci</w> или
                <w type="rec">xuca</w>)</note>, <w>xuc-oba</w>
            <gloss><q>священнодействие</q>, <q>богослужение</q></gloss>, <w>xuc-uri</w>
            <gloss>название древнегрузинского церковного («священного») письма в отличие от
              нового</gloss> — <w>mxedmli</w>
            <gloss><q>военный</q></gloss>
            <note type="comment">(<q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">церковный</q> — <q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">военный</q>, оппозиция 1-й и 2-й функций по
                <name>Дюмезилю</name>)</note></mentioned>. <mentioned xml:lang="ka"><lang>Груз.</lang>
            <w type="rec">xuca</w></mentioned>, в свою очередь, связано, возможно, в
          палеонтологическом плане c <ref type="xr" target="#entry_ca"><w>ca</w>
            <gloss><q>небо</q></gloss></ref>; ср. <mentioned xml:lang="ce"><lang/>
            <w>cʼu</w>
            <gloss><q>божество</q></gloss></mentioned>. Конечный <c>-w</c> в <lang>ос.</lang>
          <oRef>x˳ycaw</oRef> — вторичное наращение, как в <ref type="xr" target="#entry_obaw"><w>obaw</w>
            <gloss><q>курган</q></gloss></ref> из <w>oba</w>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_ʒawma" xml:lang="os-x-digor"><lang/>
            <w>ʒawmaw</w>
            <gloss><q>вещь</q></gloss></ref> из <w>ʒawma</w>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_æǧdaw"><w>æǧdaw</w>
            <gloss><q>обычай</q></gloss></ref> из <w type="rec">aǧda</w> и т. п. — <lang>Ос.</lang>
          <oRef>xucaw</oRef> нельзя сближать с <mentioned xml:lang="sog"><lang/>
            <w>xutāw</w></mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="xco"><lang/>
            <w>xuθāw</w>
            <gloss><q>бог</q></gloss>
            <note type="bibl">[<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_ВДИ"/>
                <biblScope>1938 IV (V) 143</biblScope></bibl>]</note></mentioned>, так как переход
            <c>t</c> → <c>c</c> в данном случае ничем нельзя оправдать.<note type="footnote"><mentioned xml:lang="fa"><lang/>
              <w>xudāy</w></mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="pal"><lang/>
              <w>xutāy</w></mentioned> неотделимы от приведенных согдийских и хорезмийских форм и
            восходят к <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w type="rec">hwa-tāwah-</w>
              <gloss><q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">αὐτοκρατής</q></gloss></mentioned>. Колебание
            конечных <c>-w</c> || <c>-у</c> — по вариативности сонантов, ср. <w>Kay</w> название
            династии из <w>Kawāj</w>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_obaw" xml:lang="os"><lang/>
              <w xml:lang="os-x-iron">obaw</w><w xml:lang="os-x-digor">obaj</w></ref> и т. п.
                (<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_FL"/>
              <biblScope>1973 VI 190—191</biblScope></bibl>).</note> Не исключена, однако,
          контаминация <mentioned xml:lang="cau"><lang/>
            <w>*хиса</w></mentioned> с <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><lang/>
            <w>xutāw</w></mentioned> (<bibl><author>Szemerényi</author>. <title>Syncope in greek and
              indo-europen</title>. <pubPlace>Naples</pubPlace>, <date>1964</date>, <biblScope>стр.
              360—361, n. 5</biblScope></bibl>). В игре контаминаций могло принять участие и <ref type="xr" target="#entry_xīcaw" xml:lang="os"><lang/>
            <w>xīcaw</w>
            <gloss><q>господин</q></gloss></ref>. (Cp.: <bibl><author>Meillet</author>, <ref type="bibl" target="#ref_MSL">MSL</ref>
            <biblScope>1912 XVII 111</biblScope></bibl>). — Из осетинского идет <mentioned xml:lang="krc-x-balkar"><lang/>
            <w>xəčaw</w>
            <gloss>название месяца мая</gloss></mentioned>, а также топоним <mentioned xml:lang="krc-x-balkar"><w>Xəčaw</w></mentioned>, название урочища на левом берегу речки
          Джуарген (<bibl><author>Коков</author>, <author>Шахмурзаев</author>. <title>Балк. топоним.
              сл</title>. <pubPlace>Нальчик</pubPlace>, <date>1970</date>, <biblScope>стр.
              139</biblScope></bibl>). — См. еще <ref type="xr" target="#entry_x0ycawbon"/>.<lb/><bibl><title>XXV Международный конгресс востоковедов</title>.
              <pubPlace>М.</pubPlace>, <date>1960</date>, <biblScope>стр.
          17</biblScope></bibl>.</etym>
        <etym xml:lang="en">The idea of one God entered the spiritual world of the Alans along with
          Christianity. In the pre-Christian pantheon of the Alans, the figure of the supreme God is
          not recognized. There were branch deities who bore the names <mentioned xml:lang="xln"><w>zæd</w> (<w>yazata-</w>)</mentioned> and <mentioned xml:lang="xln"><w>dawæg</w>
              (<w>wi-tāwaka-</w>)</mentioned>, and these names were used, as a rule, in the plural:
            <mentioned xml:lang="xln"><w>zædtæ</w>, <w>dawǵytæ</w></mentioned>. Since the
          Christianization of the Alans took place in the Caucasus (X century) in conditions of
          close contacts with local peoples who had already adopted Christianity, it is natural to
          look for the source of <lang>Ossetic</lang>
          <oRef>Xucaw</oRef> in the Caucasus. Indeed, we find here in a number of sacred terms the
          basis <w type="rec">xuc(а)-</w>. Cf. <mentioned xml:lang="lez"><lang/>
            <w>xucar</w>
            <gloss><q>god</q></gloss>
            <note type="bibl">(<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_Услар"/>
                <biblScope>VI s. v.</biblScope></bibl>)</note></mentioned>, probably a lexicalized
          plural form of the word <mentioned xml:lang="lez"><w>xuc-</w></mentioned>, like <mentioned xml:lang="fa"><lang/>
            <w>yazdān</w>, <w>Xuca-dat</w>
            <gloss>the name of the society in Eastern Dagestan</gloss></mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="ka"><lang/>
            <w>xucesi</w>
            <gloss><q>elder</q></gloss>
            <note type="bibl">(<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#src_Марк"/>
                <biblScope><hi rendition="#rend_italic">11</hi> 27</biblScope></bibl>)</note>,
                <gloss><q>priest</q></gloss>
            <note type="comment">(a superlative from uncommon <w type="rec">xuci</w> or <w type="rec">xuca</w>)</note>, <w>xuc-oba</w>
            <gloss><q>sacrament</q>, <q>worship</q></gloss>, <w>xuc-uri</w>
            <gloss>the name of the ancient Georgian church (<q>sacred</q>) script, in contrast to
              the new</gloss> — <w>mxedmli</w>
            <gloss><q>military</q></gloss>
            <note type="comment">(<q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">church</q> — <q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">military</q>, opposition of the first and the second
              function, according to <name>Dumézil</name>)</note></mentioned>. <mentioned xml:lang="ka"><lang/>
            <w type="rec">xuca</w></mentioned> is possibly related in paleontological terms to <ref type="xr" target="#entry_ca"><w>ca</w>
            <gloss><q>sky</q></gloss></ref>; cf. <mentioned xml:lang="ce"><lang/>
            <w>cʼu</w>
            <gloss><q>deity</q></gloss></mentioned>. The final <c>-w</c> in <lang>Ossetic</lang>
          <oRef>X˳ycaw</oRef> is secondary, as in <ref type="xr" target="#entry_obaw"><w>obaw</w>
            <gloss><q>mound</q></gloss></ref> from <w>oba</w>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_ʒawma" xml:lang="os-x-digor"><lang/>
            <w>ʒawmaw</w>
            <gloss><q>thing</q></gloss></ref> from <w>ʒawma</w>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_æǧdaw"><w>æǧdaw</w>
            <gloss><q>custom</q></gloss></ref> from <w type="rec">aǧda</w> etc. —
            <lang>Ossetic</lang>
          <oRef>Xucaw</oRef> caanot be related to <mentioned xml:lang="sog"><lang/>
            <w>xutāw</w></mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="xco"><lang/>
            <w>xuθāw</w>
            <gloss><q>god</q></gloss>
            <note type="bibl">[<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_ВДИ"/>
                <biblScope>1938 IV (V) 143</biblScope></bibl>]</note></mentioned>, because the
          transition <c>t</c> → <c>c</c> in this case cannot be justified.<note type="footnote"><mentioned xml:lang="fa"><lang/>
              <w>xudāy</w></mentioned>, <mentioned xml:lang="pal"><lang/>
              <w>xutāy</w></mentioned> are inseparable from the given Sogdian and Khorezmian forms
            and go back to <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><w type="rec">hwa-tāwah-</w>
              <gloss><q rendition="#rend_doublequotes">αὐτοκρατής</q></gloss></mentioned>. The
            alternation of the final <c>-w</c> || <c>-у</c> — according to the variability of
            sonants, cf. <w>Kay</w> name of the dynasty <w>Kawāj</w>, <ref type="xr" target="#entry_obaw" xml:lang="os"><lang/>
              <w xml:lang="os-x-iron">obaw</w><w xml:lang="os-x-digor">obaj</w></ref> etc.
                (<bibl><ref type="bibl" target="#ref_FL"/>
              <biblScope>1973 VI 190—191</biblScope></bibl>).</note> However, contamination of
            <mentioned xml:lang="cau"><lang/>
            <w>*xuca</w></mentioned> with <mentioned xml:lang="ira"><lang/>
            <w>xutāw</w></mentioned> cannot be ruled out (<bibl><author>Szemerényi</author>.
              <title>Syncope in greek and indo-europen</title>. <pubPlace>Naples</pubPlace>,
              <date>1964</date>, <biblScope>pp. 360—361, n. 5</biblScope></bibl>). In the game of
          contamination <ref type="xr" target="#entry_xīcaw" xml:lang="os"><lang/>
            <w>xīcaw</w>
            <gloss><q>master</q></gloss></ref> could also take part. (Cf.:
              <bibl><author>Meillet</author>, <ref type="bibl" target="#ref_MSL">MSL</ref>
            <biblScope>1912 XVII 111</biblScope></bibl>). — <mentioned xml:lang="krc-x-balkar"><lang/>
            <w>xəčaw</w>
            <gloss>the name of the May month</gloss></mentioned> comes from Ossetic, and also the
          toponym <mentioned xml:lang="krc-x-balkar"><w>Xəčaw</w></mentioned>, the name of the tract
          on the left bank of the Dzhuargen river (<bibl><author>Kokov</author>,
              <author>Šaxmurzaev</author>. <title>Balk. toponim. sl</title>.
              <pubPlace>Nalʼčik</pubPlace>, <date>1970</date>, <biblScope>p.
          139</biblScope></bibl>). — Cf. also <ref type="xr" target="#entry_x0ycawbon"/>.<lb/><bibl><title>XXV Meždunarodnyj kongress vostokovedov</title>.
              <pubPlace>М.</pubPlace>, <date>1960</date>, <biblScope>p.
          17</biblScope></bibl>.</etym>
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