щӏэрыкӏуэ

Kabardian

Alternative forms

• щӏагърыкӏуэ (śʼağrəkʷʼɛ)

Etymology

Contains щӏы (śʼə, “earth, ground”) as the first element. Cognate with Adyghe чӏырыкӏу (ĉʼərəkʷʼu).

Note also Svan ჭაგუ̂ (č̣agû), Mingrelian ჭუაქი (č̣uaki), which likely derive from this word also.

Noun

щӏэрыкӏуэ • (śʼɛrəkʷʼɛ)

1. Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)

Descendants

(Taking Kabardian as representative of all Circassian)

• → Abaza: шӏрыкӏва (čʼrəkʷʼa), шӏырыкӏва (čʼərəkʷʼa), чӏврыкӏва (ćʷʼrəkʷʼa)
• → Abkhaz: а-ҷы́ркәа (a-čʼə́rkʷʼa)
• → Ubykh: ҷы́ркәа (čʼə́rkʷʼa)
• → Karachay-Balkar: чурка (çurka), чирко (çirko), журка (jurka)
• → Mingrelian: ჭრაკვი (č̣raḳvi)
• → Ossetian: дзылакъуы (ʒylak’°y, “Allium oreoprasum”) / дзиликъу (ʒilik’u, “Jerusalem artichoke”)
• → Georgian: ჭლაკვი (č̣laḳvi, “spring onion”), მჭლაკვი (mč̣laḳvi); ჭლაკვა (č̣laḳva)
  • → Armenian: ճիլակ (čilak), ճլակ (člak), ճլակու (člaku)
  • → Russian: чла́кви (člákvi)

References

• Апажев, М. Л., Коков, Дж. Н. (2008) “щӏэрыкӏуэ”, in Б. Ч. Бижоев, editor, Кабардино-черкесско-русский словарь [Kabardian–Russian Dictionary], Nalchik: Elbrus, page 620b
• Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) Common West Caucasian: The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology, Leiden: Research School CNWS, →ISBN, pages 93, 96, 98
• Климов, Г. А. (1968) “Абхазско-адыгские этимологии. II (заимствованный фонд) [Abkhaz–Adyghe etymologies II (the borrowed stock)]”, in Этимология‎^[1] (in Russian), number 1966, Moscow, page 295 of 289–295
• Хъэкъун, Барэсбий (1992) “щӏагърыкӏуэ”, in Адыгэ къэкӏыгъэцӏэхэр [Dictionary of Circassian plant names] (in Kabardian), Nalchik: Elbrus, page 202
• Хъэкъун, Барэсбий (1992) “щӏэрыкӏуэ”, in Адыгэ къэкӏыгъэцӏэхэр [Dictionary of Circassian plant names] (in Kabardian), Nalchik: Elbrus, page 203
• Шагиров, А. К. (1962) Очерки по сравнительной лексикологии адыгских языков [Essays on comparative lexicology of Circassian languages]‎^[2] (in Russian), Нальчик: Кабардино-Балкарское книжное издательство, page 97
• Шагиров, А. К. (1977) К. В. Ломтатидзе, editor, Этимологический словарь адыгских (черкесских) языков [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages]‎^[3] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, page 266
• Шагиров, А. К. (1989) В. И. Абаев, editor, Заимствованная лексика абхазо-адыгских языков [Borrowed vocabulary of Abkhazo-Adyghean languages]‎^[4] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 26