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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/sag

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.

Proto-Nakh

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Ossetic *sag.

It is curious that in Klaproth’s work the Bats form is represented with a final vowel.[1] But in Schiefner’s work there is no final vowel anymore.[2] Usually, in Bats, there is a reduction of the vowel at the end of the form. If this is the case, then the Bats wordform with a final vowel should go back to the Proto-Nakh form with a final vowel and be borrowed from Proto-Ossetic *sāgɨ.

Reconstruction notes

A note by Genko (1930):

Ingush sæj ‘deer’ related to Ossetian sag ‘id.’[3]

Noun

*sag

  1. deer

Descendants
  • Bats: საგ class bd (sag)
  • Vainakh:
    • Chechen: сай class bd (saj)
    • Ingush: сай class bd (saj)

References
  1. Klaproth, Jules (1823) Voyage au mont Caucase et en Georgie (in French), volume II, Paris, page 358
  2. Schiefner, Anton (1856) Versuch über die Thusch-Sprache oder die khistische Mundart in Thuschetien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 129: “sag”
  3. Genko, Anatolii N. (1930) “Из культурного прошлого ингушей [From the cultural past of the Ingush]”, in Записки коллегии востоковедов при Азиатском музее АН СССР, volume V, Leningrad, page 717 of 681–761: “инг. sæj ‘олень’ связано с осет. саг id.”
  • Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 239: “*sag-”
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