Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/inḳala

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.

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Proto-Nakh

Etymology

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Noun

*inḳala

1. glass

Descendants

• Bats: ანკრაჸო̆ class jj (anḳraʾŏ) (< obl. *aanḳala-)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: а̄нгали class dd (aangali) (< obl. *aanḳala-j-)
  • Ingush: ингалӣ class dd (ingalii, “porcelain”) (< obl. *-j-)

Further reading

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ʔanga-laj ( ~-ḳ-)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
• Schrijver, Peter (2024) “East Caucasian perspectives on the origin of the word ‘camel’ and some notes on European substrate lexemes”, in Kroonen, Guus, editor, Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods, Results (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM])‎^[2], volume 375, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 391: “*ingalaj”
• Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 261