Vasily Abaev

Ossetian soviet linguist.

Born December 15th, 1900 in Kobi, Georgia.

Died March 18th, 2001 at 100 years old in Moscow.

Occupations
etymologist, iranologist, linguist, local historian, pedagogue, philologist, university teacher
Wikipedia

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson