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Reconstruction:Proto-Northwest Caucasian/atʼǝmˤa

This Proto-Northwest Caucasian 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-Northwest Caucasian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /atʼəmˤa/

Noun

*atʼǝmˤa

  1. peach

Descendants
  • Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza: *atʼama (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Circassian: *tʼǝmˤa
    • ⇒ Adyghe: къуы-тӏым (qʷə-tʼəm, “sort of pear with big fruit”) — Shapsug
    • ⇒ Kabardian: тӏымыщ (tʼəməś, “plump, corpulent”), быр-тӏым (bər-tʼəm)
  • Ubykh: тым'а (tʼəṃa)

References
  • The template Template:R:cau-nwc:CWC does not use the parameter(s): 
    head=*tʼa/ǝma/ǝ
    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) Common West Caucasian: The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology, Leiden: Research School CNWS, →ISBN, page 190: “*tʼa/ǝma/ǝ”
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ṭŭmhV ( ~ *ṭwĭ-,-ħ-)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  • Ḳvaxaʒe, Aleksandre (2014) Merab Čuxua, editor, Čerkezul ena-ḳilo-tkmata semanṭiḳur-šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Comparative-Semantic Dictionary of Circassian Languages and Dialects] (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 69
  • Ḳvaxaʒe, Aleksandre (2019) Saertoapxazur-adiɣuri ponologiuri sisṭema [Common-Abkhaz-Adyghe phonological system] (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 52
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