Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/maašu

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

*maašu (stem *maašu-)

1. partridge

Descendants

• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: мо̄ша (mooša)
  • Ingush: моаш (moaš)

Further reading

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*māšu”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
• 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 113: “*maːšu”