Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/ħak

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

*ħak (stem *ħak-)

  1. plum
  2. plum tree

Descendants

  • Vainakh:
    • Chechen: хьа̄ч class bd (ḥʳaač), хьа̄к class bb (ḥʳaak) — Kist, Itum-Qalle
    • Ingush: хьач class bb (ḥʳač)

Further reading

  • 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, pages 239, 242, 263
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