 History Among the tribal names given in " Ashkharatsuyts " there is an ethnonym ashtigor, which is considered to be the name of the Digors .
<meaning-changed>  History Among the tribal names given in " Ashkharatsuyts " there is an ethnonym ashtigor, which is considered to be the name of the Digors .
Name Scholars generally link the root dig- with the Circassian endonym A-dyg-e, where the suffix -or could be a mark of plurality as found in many contemporary Caucasian languages. Ossetian Soviet linguist Vasily Abaev conjectured that the Digors may be an Iranized Circassian tribe. History Among the tribal names given in " Ashkharatsuyts " there is an ethnonym ashtigor, which is considered to be the name of the Digors .