Reconstruction:Proto-Northeast Caucasian/rɔḳʷ(ə)

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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

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Alternative reconstructions

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  • #rVk’u / #Vrk’u, class 4[1]
  • *jĕrḳwĭ[2]

Noun

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*rɔḳʷ(ə) (class 4) (oblique stem *rɨk’ʷV́- /rɨˈk’ʷV/)

  1. heart

Descendants

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  • Proto-Avaro-Andian: *rɔḳʷə
  • Proto-Tsezian: *rɔḳʷə (oblique stem *rɔḳʷi-) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Nakh: *doḳ (see there for further descendants)

References

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  • 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:*doḳ
  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 258
  2. ^ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*jĕrḳwĭ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers