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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/lawa

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

Alternative forms
  • *lawe (Nichols 1994: 25)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

*lawa

  1. snow

Descendants
  • Bats: ლავ (lav)
  • Vainakh:

References
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L.; Starostin, Sergei A. (1994), “*law”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  • 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 256: “нахские формы предполагают общий архетип [the Nakh forms suggest a common archetype]”
  • 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 90: “*law(a)”
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