Reconstruction:Proto-Northeast Caucasian/mɔʒ

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This Proto-Northeast Caucasian 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-Northeast Caucasian[edit]

Alternative reconstructions[edit]

Noun[edit]

*mɔʒ (class 3) /mɔdz/ (oblique stem *mɨʒV́- /mɨdzˈV/-)

  1. tongue, language

Descendants[edit]

  • From ablauting *mɔʒ, *mɨʒV́-
    • Proto-Avaro-Andian: *mɔc̣c̣ (oblique stem *mɨc̣c̣V-)
    • Proto-Nakh: *moṭṭ (see there for further descendants)
  • From oblique stem *mɨʒV́-

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[2], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 136: “*motʾtʾ”
  1. ^ Nichols, Johanna (2003) “The Nakh-Daghestanian consonant correspondences”, in Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite, editors, Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, →DOI, page 261
  2. ^ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mĕlc̣_ĭ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
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