Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/daada

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

From nursery language.

Noun

*daada

1. father

   Coordinate terms: *naana (“mother”), *wašo (“brother”), *jašo (“sister”)

Descendants

• Bats: და̄დ class vb (dād)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: да̄ class vb (daa)
  • Ingush: да̄ class vb (daa)

References

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*dād(a)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
• 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^[2], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 88: “*dada or *daːda”