Dat' tigalja

[Robert A. Rothstein]

P. Ia. Chernykh, _Istoriko-etimologicheskii slovar' sovremennogo
russkogo iazyka_ (Moscow, 1993), has an entry for _tigalia_ as in _dat'
(zadat') tigalia_.  He suggests an older form _tiagalia_ or perhaps
_tiagolia_ and a connection with _dat' tiagacha_, _dat' tiaguna_, _dat'
tiagu_, all of which are in Dal', unlike _dat' tiagalia_.  Chernykh also
cites the adjecti ve _tiagal'nyi_ as in the metallurgical term
_tiagal'nye kleshchi_.  He doubts a Turkic origin, which was apparently
suggested by Dmitriev in _Leksikograf_ 3 (1958).

    Bob Rothstein

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