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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/diḳ

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

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Noun

*diḳ

  1. axe

Descendants

  • Bats: დიკ class dd (diḳ)
  • Vainakh:
    • Chechen: диг class dd (dig)
    • Ingush: диг class dd (dig)

References

  • Nikolaev, Sergei L.; Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers: “*diḳ”
  • 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 (in English), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, →DOI, page 235: “*dikʼ”
  • 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 144: “*dikʾ”
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