Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/pħa

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

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Noun

*pħa

1. blood feud; vendetta

Descendants

• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: пхьа (pḥʳa)
  • Ingush: пхьа (pḥʳa)

References

• Nichols, Johanna, Vagapov, Arbi (2004) “пхьа”, in Chechen–English and English–Chechen Dictionary, London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, page 187
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2022) Der Erbwortschatz der nachischen Sprachen im Kaukasus [The inherited vocabulary of Nakh languages in the Caucasus] (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 79
• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*pħa”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers