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Definition of Ossete
1. Noun. A northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia.
Definition of Ossete
1. Adjective. Ossetian ¹
2. Noun. Ossetian (gloss language) ¹
3. Noun. Ossetian (gloss one who is from Ossetia) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossete
Literary usage of Ossete
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations Proved by a Comparison of Their by James Cowles Prichard (1857)
"The ossete verbs form their persons after the fashion of the Armenian—a fashion
... On the other hand, many proper Slavonic words appear in the ossete. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"In a tent at the foot of the Ceja Glacier we found an elderly ossete come ...
While on the subject of ossete antiquities, I may remind the antiquarian that ..."
3. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"ossete magicians and soothsayers, as also the persons who conduct marriage and
burial ... Family ties, and those of hospitality, stand high with the ossete. ..."
4. Record Series (Yorkshire Archaeological Society) by Yorkshire Archaeological Society (1901)
"who does not come; a better distraint is ordered. ossete.—Robert son of Peter de
ossete, for vert, 6d.; pledge, ..."
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