Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/busu

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.

This Proto-Nakh entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Nakh

Etymology

Unknown.

Adverb

*busu

1. at night

Related terms

noun

• *busja (“night”)

 

Descendants

• Bats: ბუჲსუ̆ (buysŭ)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: буса (busa)
  • Ingush: бус (bus)

Further reading

• Schiefner, Anton (1856) Versuch über die Thusch-Sprache oder die khistische Mundart in Thuschetien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 146: “buisu”
• Uslar, Peter von (1888) Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. II. Чеченский язык [Ethnography of the Caucasus. Linguistics. II. The Chechen language] (in Russian), Tiflis: Printing house of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the civil unit in the Caucasus, page 162: “бусу ― busu”
• Malʹsagov, Zaurbek K. (1925) Ингушская грамматика [Ingush Grammar]‎^[1] (in Russian), 1nd edition, Vladikavkaz: Printing house Svet, page 128: “bus”
• Macijev, A. G., Ozdojev, I. A., Džamalxanov, Z. D. (1962) Нохчийн-гӏалгӏайн-оьрсийн словарь / Чеченско-ингушско-русский словарь [Chechen–Ingush–Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 32: “буса; бус ― busa; bus”