I. TRAVAUX ET MÉMOIRES a—Linguistique et études bibliques AN ARMENIAN-OSSETIC ISOGLOSS CONCERNING THE WHEEL VEHICLES* by TORK DALALYAN UMR 7528 Mondes Iranien et indien torqdal@yahoo.com An etymological analysis shows that in ancient pre-literature Armenian there has been a certain number of terms of Pre-Indo-European (PIE) origin, concerning the sphere of wheel vehicles and harness, such as առեղ are¥ ‘thill, pole of cart, beam, shaft’, ալի ali 1. ‘axletree, axis, pivot’, լուծ luc ‘yoke’, հոլոլ holol 1.‘wheel’, 2. ‘a wheeling cart’ (in infantile language), սամի sami 1.‘yoke-peg’, 2. ‘perch (of carriage)’, քեղի k‘e¥i 1. ‘pole of a coach’, 2. ‘part of a rudder’ 1 . In Ossetic language also, the terms of this sphere are generally of native Iranian origin, e.g. ar / aræ ‘thill, pole of cart, beam, shaft’, calx ‘wheel’, æ fsonj ‘yoke’, rætænagd ‘thill, pole of cart, beam, shaft’, wærdon ‘bullock cart’, widon ‘bridle’, which have their parallels in numerous I.-E. languages 2 . In the present short paper we will try to prove that the first examples of Armenian-Ossetic above-mentioned semantic series are identical not only phonologically but also etymologically. In spite of this, they have never subjected to a common etymological analysis. The main reason is that Os. * I express my gratitude to Dr. Gegam Gevonian (Kéram Kevonian), Maison des sciences de l’homme, for having made important notes to this paper and for having introduced me to some literature related to its subject. I am grateful also to Dr. Hrach Martirosyan (Leiden) for helping me to obtain some relevant references. 1 See in Acaryan 1971-1979, III: 109-110; Agayan 1976, IV: 1274, 1564; Hübschmann 1897: 488; Jahukyan 1987: 122, 148, 215, 266; Jahukyan 1963: 86; Malxaseanc‘ 1944- 1945, III: 125; IV: 179. 2 Abaev 1958-1989, I: 55-56, 287-288, 484-485; IV: 91-92, 106-107. REArm 34 (2012) 1-7.