Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/-ᶰ

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

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Suffix

*-ᶰ

1. The genitive marker.

Descendants

• Bats: -◌ჼ (-◌̃)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: -н (-n)
  • Ingush: -а (-a)

Derived terms

Category Proto-Nakh terms suffixed with *-ᶰ not found

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^[1], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 147: “genitive bettaᶰ < *batt-i-ᶰ”