< Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh
Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/dalaᶰ
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This Proto-Nakh entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
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This Proto-Nakh entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works. |
Proto-Nakh
Etymology
According to Starostin, cognates include Proto-Avaro-Andian *=iƛ’-, Proto-Tsezic *=iƛ’-, Proto-Lak *=i=č’a-. Starostin suggests on the basis of Bacb. Mats =aʎ- that *-Ł- can be reconstructed instead of *-l- for Proto-Nakh. However, Nichols (2003),[1] rejects a connection with the Proto-Avaro-Andian *=iƛ’- etc., which she says is inherited from Proto-Northeast-Caucasian #D=Vƛ’ "die, kill". The only Chechen reflex of Proto-Northeast-Caucasian #D=Vƛ’ is Chechen daq'a "corpse" (Nichols 2003).
References
- Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*=aŁ-”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
- Nichols, Johanna (2003) “The Nakh-Daghestanian consonant correspondences”, in Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite, editors, Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, , page 225
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