Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/baq̇i
Proto-Nakh
Etymology
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Noun
*baq̇i (stem *baq̇o-)
- foal, colt
- Coordinate terms: *diᶰ (“horse”), *qadale (“mare”), *bHaarc̣oᶰ (“mule; hinny”), *wir (“donkey”)
Descendants
- Bats: ბაყო̆ class dd (baq̇ŏ)
- Vainakh:
- Chechen: бекъа class jj (beqʼa)
- Ingush: бакъ class jj (baqʼ)
- ⇒ Ingush: бакъилг class jj (baqʼilg)
- → Georgian: (Khevsureti) ბაყალ (baq̇al, “bastard”), ⇒ ბაყალიკა (baq̇aliḳa), (Pshavi) ბაყალიკა (baq̇aliḳa, “donkey foal”), ბაყალწიკა (baq̇alc̣iḳa)
- ⇒ Ingush: бакъилг class jj (baqʼilg)
- → Alanic: *bæx (“horse”)
- Jassic: bah
- Ossetian: бӕх (bæx)
- → Georgian: (Imereti) ბახი (baxi, “useless horse”), (Gudamaqari) ბუხი (buxi), (Khevsureti, Khevi) ფუხი (puxi)
- →? Old East Slavic: *бахъ (*baxŭ)
- Russian: (dialectal) бах (bax, “jade, nag (old or worn-out horse)”)
References
- Nikolaev, Sergei L.; Starostin, Sergei A. (1994), “*wĭlq̇ǝ(rǝ)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, pages 1049–1050: “*baq̇e”
- 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[2], volume 5, , →ISSN, page 109: “*baqʾi Gsg. *baqʾoᶰ 'foal'”