Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/busja

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

Etymology

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Noun

*busja

1. night

Related terms

adverb

• *busu (“at night”)

 

Descendants

• Bats: ბუჲსა (buysa)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: буьйса (büüsa)
  • Ingush: бийса (biı̇sa)

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 137: “buisa”
• 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: “буīсi ― buīsi”
• Malʹsagov, Zaurbek K. (1925) Ингушская грамматика [Ingush Grammar]‎^[1] (in Russian), 1nd edition, Vladikavkaz: Printing house Svet, page 128: “bijsae”
• 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 33: “буьйса; бийса ― buʹjsa; bijsa”
• Nichols, Johanna B. (2011) Ingush Grammar‎^[2], volume 143, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 24: “biisa”
• Arsakhanov, Israil (1959) Аккинский диалект в системе чечено-ингушского языка [Akkin dialect in the system of the Chechen-Ingush language] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 159: “бу́ьса ― búʹsa”
• Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь [Chechen-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 75: “буьйса ― buʹjsa”