Reconstruction:Proto-Northwest Caucasian/śʷasá

This Proto-Northwest 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-Northwest Caucasian

Noun

*śʷasá[1][2]

  1. bride

Descendants

  • Proto-Circassian: *pśaśá (see there for further descendants)
  • Ubykh: śasá (“bride”)

References

  1. ^ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*s_wēsǝ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  2. ^ Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) Common West Caucasian: The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology, Leiden: Research School CNWS, →ISBN, page 361: “*(p)śasá”
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