Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/lawa

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

Alternative forms

*lawe (Nichols 1994: 25)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

*lawa (stem *lawa-)

snow

Descendants

Bats: ლავ class dd (lav)
Vainakh:
- Chechen: ло̄ class dd (loo)
- Ingush: лоа class dd (loa)

References

Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers: “*law”
Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 256: “нахские формы предполагают общий архетип [the Nakh forms suggest a common archetype] ― naxskije formy predpolagajut obščij arxetip [the Nakh forms suggest a common archetype]”
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^[2], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 90: “*law(a)”