Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/sag

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

Borrowed from Alanic *sag.

Noun

*sag (stem *sag-)

1. deer

Descendants

• Bats: საგ class bd (sag)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: сай class bd (saj)
  • Ingush: сай class bd (saj)

Further reading

• 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 239: “*sag-”
• Genko, Anatolii N. (1930) “Из культурного прошлого ингушей [From the cultural past of the Ingush]”, in Записки коллегии востоковедов при Азиатском музее АН СССР, volume V, Leningrad, page 717 of 681–761: “инг. sæj ‘олень’ связано с осет. саг id.”
• Klaproth, Jules (1823) Voyage au mont Caucase et en Georgie (in French), volume II, Paris, page 358
• Schiefner, Anton (1856) Versuch über die Thusch-Sprache oder die khistische Mundart in Thuschetien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 129: “sag”