Reconstruction:Proto-Northeast Caucasian/rɔḳʷ(ə)

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This Proto-Northeast Caucasian 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-Northeast Caucasian

Alternative reconstructions

#rVk’u / #Vrk’u, class 4^[1]
*jĕrḳwĭ^[2]

Noun

*rɔḳʷ(ə) (class 4) (oblique stem *rɨk’ʷV́- /rɨˈk’ʷV/)

heart

Descendants

Proto-Avaro-Andian: *rɔḳʷɔ (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Tsezian: *rɔḳʷə (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Nakh: *doḳ (see there for further descendants)

References

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 136: “*doḳ”

^ Nichols, Johanna (2003) “The Nakh-Daghestanian consonant correspondences”, in Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite, editors, Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, →DOI, page 258
^ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*jĕrḳwĭ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

[1] Nichols, Johanna (2003) “The Nakh-Daghestanian consonant correspondences”, in Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite, editors, Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, →DOI, page 258

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

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