Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/ʕe
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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. |
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Proto-Nakh
[edit]Etymology
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Dutch linguist Peter Schrijver,[1] reconstructs the oblique stem *ʕanir- for the Chechen reflex (this is not confirmed by the Bats material). However, Uslar’s work[2] contains a form in the genitive singular ԧeнерің with -e- in the second syllable:
- *ʕanariᶰ (assimilation 1) > *ʕaneriᶰ (assimilation 2) > *ʕäneriᶰ (reduction) > Chechen ӏаьнаран (ˀänaran);
- *ʕanariᶰ (syncope) > *ʕanriᶰ > Bats ჺანრიჼ (ʿanrĩ).
And the nominative plural:
- *ʕanariš (assimilation 1) > *ʕaneriš (assimilation 2) > *ʕäneriš (reduction) > Chechen ӏаьнарш (ˀänarš);
- *ʕanariš (apocope 1) > *ʕanari (refraction or i-epenthesis) > *ʕanaⁱri (apocope 2) > Bats ჺანაჲრ (ʿanayr).
It follows from this that his reconstruction is incorrect.
Noun
[edit]*ʕe
Descendants
[edit]- Bats: ჺა (ʿa) (< oblique *ʕanar-)
- Vainakh:
Further reading
[edit]- Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ʡe”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
References
[edit]- ^ 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[1], volume 5, , →ISSN, page 146: “*ʕi O *ʕanar-, *ʕanir-”
- ^ Uslar, Peter von (1888) Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. II. Чеченский язык (in Russian), Tiflis: Printing house of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the civil unit in the Caucasus, page 205: “ԧeнерің”