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Chechen
Etymology
Compound of хьаьж (ḥʳäž, “hajj”) + кӏа (kʼa, “wheat”). Possibly a calque from Kumyk гьабижай (habijay, “corn, maize”) with a metathesis from compound of гьаж (haj, “hajj”) + будай (buday, “wheat”), if not the other way around.
Pronunciation
Noun
хьаьжкӏа • (ḥʳäžkʼa) class jj
- corn, maize
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- → Ingush: хьажкӏа (ḥʳažkʼa) (calque)
References
- ^ Desheriev, Yunus D. (1963) Сравнительно-историческая грамматика нахских языков и проблемы происхождения и исторического развития горских кавказских народов (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 359
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Xašajev, X.-M. O. (1959) Занятия населения Дагестана в XIX веке (in Russian), Makhachkala: Dagestan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, pages 42–43
Further reading
- Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 452