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тӏа

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Chechen

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nakh *ṭā. Cognate with Ingush тӏа (tʼa), Bats ტა (ṭa).

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Any relation to Chechen тӏод (tʼod, paw, hand), Georgian ტოტი (ṭoṭi, paw, hand; animal's frontal legs)?”

Noun

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тӏа (tʼa?

  1. animal's frontal legs

References

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  • Алироев, И. Ю. (1978) Нахские языки и культура [Nakh languages and culture], Grozny: Чечено-Ингушское книжное издательство, page 187
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2022) Der Erbwortschatz der nachischen Sprachen im Kaukasus [The inherited vocabulary of Nakh languages in the Caucasus] (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 99
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ṭwīɦV̄”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers