Abaev, Vasily Ivanovich
(1900–2001) Soviet-Russian philologist, linguist, and Iranologist; a pioneering Ossetian scholar whose research bridged historical linguistics, folklore, and cultural history. He authored the monumental Ossetic Historical and Etymological Dictionary and advanced studies on Scythian, Sarmatian, and Ossetic language and culture. See ABAEV, VASILIĬ IVANOVICH.
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ALANS, an ancient Iranian tribe of the northern (Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Massagete) group, known to classical writers from the first…