Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/bHoḳ

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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Noun

*bHoḳ

1. billy goat, he-goat

Descendants

• Bats: ბჵოკ class bd (b'oḳ)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: бож class jj (bož)
  • Ingush: бож class jj (bož)

References

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers: “*bɦoḳ́”
• Witzel, Michael (2003) Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia (Sino-Platonic Papers; 129)‎^[2], Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, page 21: “*bʿokʼ”
• 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 137: “*bˁokʾ, *bˁočʾ”