Reconstruction:Proto-Northwest Caucasian/C-qːamǝ́

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This Proto-Northwest Caucasian 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-Northwest Caucasian

Etymology

Possibly related to Proto-Northeast Caucasian *χʕāmV (skin)[1] and/or Proto-Kartvelian *qaml- (leather).[2][3][4]

Noun

*C-qːamǝ́

  1. fur

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

  • Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza: *qamə́
    • Abaza: хъамы́ (qamə́)
    • Abkhaz: ахамы́ (axamə́)
  • Ubykh: tχamǝ́

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*χʕāmV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  2. ^ Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 263
  3. ^ Климов, Г. А. (1969) “Абхазоадыгско-картвельские лексические параллели [Abkhaz-Adyghe and Kartvelian lexical parallels]”, in Этимология (in Russian), number 1967, Moscow: Nauka, page 290 of 286–295
  4. 4.0 4.1 Čuxua, Merab (2019) Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 629
  5. ^ Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) Common West Caucasian: The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology, Leiden: Research School CNWS, →ISBN, page 361:*tqamə́