Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/-aᶰ

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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.

Proto-Nakh

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Etymology

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

Verb

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*-aᶰ pf (imperfective *-aᶰ)

  1. The infinitive ending of verbs.

Descendants

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  • Bats: -აჼ ()
  • Vainakh:
    • Chechen: (-a)
    • Ingush: (-a)

Derived terms

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References

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  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers:*-n
  • Handel, Zev (2003) “Ingush inflectional verb morphology”, in Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite, editors, Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson[2], Amsterdam: John Benjamins, page 157:-an
  • Nichols, Johanna (2004) “The Origin of the Chechen and Ingush: A Study in Alpine Linguistic and Ethnic Geography”, in Anthropological Linguistics, volume 46, number 2, Bloomington, Indiana: Trustees of Indiana University, →JSTOR, page 137:-an
  • 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[3], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 94:-aᶰ