Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/kori

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 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 Old Georgian ქორი (kori), unless Proto-Georgian-Zan *kor- would be a borrowing from Proto-Nakh, as suggested by Nikolaev & Starostin (1994).

Noun

*kori (stem *kori-)

  1. hawk

Descendants

  • Bats: ქუჲრი̆ class dd (kuyrĭ)
  • Vainakh:

References

  • 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 103
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “kōri”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
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