куьйра

Chechen

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Nakh *kori, ultimately an early borrowing from Georgian ქორი (kori), or Kartvelian in general. Compare Ingush кер (ker), Bats ქუჲრი̂ (kuyrî).[1][2][3]

Noun

куьйра • (küjra) class dd (plural куьйранаш)

  1. northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)

References
  1. 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 432
  2. Imnajšvili, David S. (1977) Историко-сравнительный анализ фонетики нахских языков / ნახური ჯგუფის ენათა ფონეტიკის ისტორიულ-შედარებითი ანალიზი [Historical and comparative analysis of the phonetics of the Nakh languages] (in Russian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 120
  3. Schrijver, Peter (2021), “A history of the vowel systems of the Nakh languages (East Caucasian), with special reference to umlaut in Chechen and Ingush”, in Languages of the Caucasus‎ (in English), volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 103
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