Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/borš

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.

Proto-Nakh

Etymology

Borrowed from Alanic *wurš.

Nikolaev & Starostin (1994) believe that Nakh form goes back to Proto-Northeast Caucasian, but their reconstruction contains irregular correspondences. Nichols (2003) is mistaken in the meaning of the Ingush form. Schrijver (2021) compares the Ingush adjective with the Bats and Chechen noun, which, apparently, is a mistake, since there is a corresponding Chechen adjective.

Noun

*borš (stem *barš-)

young bull

Related terms

adjectives

*boršeᶰ (“male”)

Descendants

Bats: ბორშ class dd (borš)
Vainakh:
- Chechen: борш class jj (borš)
- >? Ingush: борш class jj (borš, “chestnut”)

References

Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers: “*borš”
Schrijver, Peter (2021) “A history of the vowel systems of the Nakh languages (East Caucasian), with special reference to umlaut in Chechen and Ingush”, in Languages of the Caucasus‎, volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 137: “*borš”

^ Genko, Anatolii N. (1930) “Из культурного прошлого ингушей ”, in Записки коллегии востоковедов при Азиатском музее АН СССР, volume V, Leningrad, page 725 of 681–761
^ Abajev, V. I. (1989) “wyrs | urs”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 124‒125
^ 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, page 246
^ Nichols, Johanna B. (2004) “Proto-Nakh/borš”, in Ingush–English and English–Ingush Dictionary, London and New York: Routledge, page 39
^ Malʹsagov, Zaurbek K. (1963) Грамматика ингушского языка ‎ (in Russian), 2nd edition, Grozny: Chechen-Ingush book publishing house, page 87
^ Nichols, Johanna B. (2004) “Proto-Nakh/borš”, in Ingush–English and English–Ingush Dictionary, London and New York: Routledge, page 39
^ Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 68

[1] Genko, Anatolii N. (1930) “Из культурного прошлого ингушей ”, in Записки коллегии востоковедов при Азиатском музее АН СССР, volume V, Leningrad, page 725 of 681–761

[2] Abajev, V. I. (1989) “wyrs | urs”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 124‒125

[3] 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, page 246

[4] Nichols, Johanna B. (2004) “Proto-Nakh/borš”, in Ingush–English and English–Ingush Dictionary, London and New York: Routledge, page 39

[5] Malʹsagov, Zaurbek K. (1963) Грамматика ингушского языка ‎ (in Russian), 2nd edition, Grozny: Chechen-Ingush book publishing house, page 87

[6] Nichols, Johanna B. (2004) “Proto-Nakh/borš”, in Ingush–English and English–Ingush Dictionary, London and New York: Routledge, page 39

[7] Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 68