Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/inḳala

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*inḳala

1. glass

• Bats: ანკრაჸო̆ class jj (anḳraʾŏ) (< obl. *aanḳala-)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: а̄нгали class dd (aangali) (< obl. *aanḳala-j-)
  • Ingush: ингалӣ class dd (ingalii, “porcelain”) (< obl. *-j-)

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ʔanga-laj ( ~-ḳ-)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
• Schrijver, Peter (2024) “East Caucasian perspectives on the origin of the word ‘camel’ and some notes on European substrate lexemes”, in Kroonen, Guus, editor, Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods, Results (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs )‎, volume 375, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 391: “*ingalaj”