Reconstruction:Proto-Northeast Caucasian/weršē

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

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā (“virile man; male animal, stallion, bull”).^[1]^[2]

Noun

*weršē^[1]^[3]^[2]

bull calf
male

Descendants

Archi: бошор (bošor)
Proto-Avaro-Andian: *bišʷa^[2]
- Akhvakh: буша (buša)
- Avar: баси́ (bası̇́)
- Tindi: боха (boha)
Proto-Nakh: *borš
- Bats: ბორშ class dd (borš)
- Vainakh:
  - Chechen: борш class jj (borš)
  - >? Ingush: борш class jj (borš, “chestnut”)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Dʹjakonov, I. M., Starostin, S. A. (2007) “Indojevropejsko-severnokavkazskije izoglossy”, in Starostin, G. S., editor, Trudy po jazykoznaniju [Proceedings in Linguistics]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kulʹtur, →ISBN, page 314: “ПВК *werše ― PVK *werše”
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*wĕršē”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
^ Aharon Dolgopolsky (1974) “О ностратической системе аффрикат и сибилянтов: корни с фонемой *ʒ”, in Этимология 1972, Moscow, page 171: “11. ... и.-е. *wersē-/-i- 'теленок, кабан'”

[Starostin-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Dʹjakonov, I. M., Starostin, S. A. (2007) “Indojevropejsko-severnokavkazskije izoglossy”, in Starostin, G. S., editor, Trudy po jazykoznaniju [Proceedings in Linguistics]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kulʹtur, →ISBN, page 314: “ПВК *werše ― PVK *werše”

[NCED-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*wĕršē”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

[3] Aharon Dolgopolsky (1974) “О ностратической системе аффрикат и сибилянтов: корни с фонемой *ʒ”, in Этимология 1972, Moscow, page 171: “11. ... и.-е. *wersē-/-i- 'теленок, кабан'”

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