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Khinalug
Etymology
According to Nikolayev / Starostin and Kassian, perhaps inherited from Proto-Northeast Caucasian *ḳwēmṭī ~ *ḳwēmṭō (“lip”) with a dissimilative deglottalisation of the second consonant and a non-standard meaning shift 'lip' → 'nose'. Kassian remarks that the final -ыр (-ɨr) looks like a fossilized plural exponent.
According to Asatrian, Old Armenian քիթ (kʻitʻ, “nose”) may be related.
Noun
кӏыты́р (ḳɨtɨ́r)
- nose
- кӏытыр фыр кири ― ḳɨtɨr fɨr kiri ― то blow one’s nose
Derived terms
- кӏытыри (ḳɨtɨri, “nasal, of nose”, adjective)
References
- Asatrian, Garnik (2014) “‘Nose’ in Armenian”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 18, number 2, page 148
- Ganijeva, F. A. (2002) “кӏытыр”, in Хиналугско-русский словарь (Бесписьменные языки Дагестана), Makhachkala: Dagestan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 197a
- Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 88
- Kassian, A. (2013) “Annotated Swadesh wordlists for the Khinalug group (North Caucasian family)”, in The Global Lexicostatistical Database, 61. NOSE
- Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ḳwēmṭī”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, page 733