Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/-aᶰ

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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Verb

*-aᶰ pf (imperfective *-aᶰ)

1. The infinitive ending of verbs.

Descendants

• Bats: -აჼ (-ã)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: -а (-a)
  • Ingush: -а (-a)

Derived terms

• See Category:Proto-Nakh verbs.

References

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers: “*-n”
• Handel, Zev (2003) “Ingush inflectional verb morphology”, in Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite, editors, Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson‎^[2], Amsterdam: John Benjamins, page 157: “-an”
• Nichols, Johanna (2004) “The Origin of the Chechen and Ingush: A Study in Alpine Linguistic and Ethnic Geography”, in Anthropological Linguistics, volume 46, number 2, Bloomington, Indiana: Trustees of Indiana University, →JSTOR, page 137: “-an”
• 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^[3], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 94: “-aᶰ”