Vaso (Vasily) Ivanovich Abaev was an ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Ossetian and Iranian linguistics. He was born in Kobi, Georgia, Russian Empire. Abaev studied at the Gymnasium of Tiflis in 1910-1918 and graduated from the Leningrad University in 1925. He studied Iranian philology under Friedman's direction and, as many other young linguists, fell under the influence of the controversial Nicholas Marr, joining Marr's Yaphetic Institute in 1928.

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  • Vaso (Vasily) Ivanovich Abaev was an ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Ossetian and Iranian linguistics. He was born in Kobi, Georgia, Russian Empire. Abaev studied at the Gymnasium of Tiflis in 1910-1918 and graduated from the Leningrad University in 1925. He studied Iranian philology under Friedman's direction and, as many other young linguists, fell under the influence of the controversial Nicholas Marr, joining Marr's Yaphetic Institute in 1928. After Marr's death, he moved to broad Iranian topics and field work in Ossetia until the end of the World War II. In 1945 he moved back to Leningrad where he published his work on the Nart saga, a dictionary and grammar book of Ossetian. With Stalin's condemnation of Marr's linguistic theories the Yaphetic Institute was purged, but Abaev was spared. Starting with the 1950s, Abayev became internationally famous as the leading authority on Scythian and Sarmatian linguistics. Assisted by his friend, Georges Dumézil, Abaev demonstrated connections between the Scythian languages and modern Ossetian. He also pointed out some striking similarities between Ossetian and Celtic mythology. His magnum opus, the Etymological Dictionary of Ossetian Language, was published in four volumes between 1959 and 1989. He died at the age of 100 in Saint Petersburg. Several years later, a monument to him was unveiled in Tskhinvali.
  • Vasili Ivànovitx Abaiev, nascut el 15 de desembre de 1900 a Kobi i mort el 18 de març de 2001 a Sant Petersburg, fou un destacat lingüista osset especilitzat en l'estudi de les llengües iràniques, especialment de l'osset.
  • Ha dedicato la sua vasta opera di oltre 200 titoli alla linguistica caucasica, iranica e generale. È stato autore di opere fondamentali sulla lingua osseta: Iz osetinskogo eposa; Osetinskij jazyk i fol'klor («La lingua e il folclore osseti», 1949); Russko-osetinskij slovar'; Grammatičeskij očerk osetinskogo jazyka; Skifoevropejskie izoglossy. Na styke Vostoka i zapada («Isoglosse scitoeuropee. Sul collegamento di Oriente e Occidente», 1965); e la sua opera più nota Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovar' osetinskogo jazyca («Vocabolario storico etimologico della lingua osseta», 1958). Fu accademico delle Scienze dell'URSS.
  • Васи́лий Ива́нович Аба́ев — российский языковед-иранист, осетин по национальности. Доктор филологических наук (1962), профессор (1969), лауреат Государственной премии СССР (1981); почётный член ряда иностранных академий и научных обществ. Труды по осетинской и иранской этимологии, осетинскому фольклору, иранистике, общему языкознанию. Сын Вано Абаева, также языковеда - специалиста по осетинскому языку.
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  • Vaso (Vasily) Ivanovich Abaev was an ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Ossetian and Iranian linguistics. He was born in Kobi, Georgia, Russian Empire. Abaev studied at the Gymnasium of Tiflis in 1910-1918 and graduated from the Leningrad University in 1925. He studied Iranian philology under Friedman's direction and, as many other young linguists, fell under the influence of the controversial Nicholas Marr, joining Marr's Yaphetic Institute in 1928.
  • Vasili Ivànovitx Abaiev, nascut el 15 de desembre de 1900 a Kobi i mort el 18 de març de 2001 a Sant Petersburg, fou un destacat lingüista osset especilitzat en l'estudi de les llengües iràniques, especialment de l'osset.
  • Ha dedicato la sua vasta opera di oltre 200 titoli alla linguistica caucasica, iranica e generale. È stato autore di opere fondamentali sulla lingua osseta: Iz osetinskogo eposa; Osetinskij jazyk i fol'klor («La lingua e il folclore osseti», 1949); Russko-osetinskij slovar'; Grammatičeskij očerk osetinskogo jazyka; Skifoevropejskie izoglossy. Na styke Vostoka i zapada («Isoglosse scitoeuropee.
  • Васи́лий Ива́нович Аба́ев — российский языковед-иранист, осетин по национальности. Доктор филологических наук (1962), профессор (1969), лауреат Государственной премии СССР (1981); почётный член ряда иностранных академий и научных обществ.
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  • Vasily Abaev
  • Vasili Abaiev
  • Vasilij Ivanovič Abaev
  • Абаев, Василий Иванович
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