Reconstruction:Proto-Northwest Caucasian/atʼǝmˤa

This Proto-Northwest 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-Northwest Caucasian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /atʼəmˤa/

Noun

*atʼǝmˤa

1. peach

Descendants

• Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza: *atʼama (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Circassian: *tʼǝmˤa
  • ⇒ Adyghe: къуы-тӏым (qʷə-tʼəm, “sort of pear with big fruit”) — Shapsug
  • ⇒ Kabardian: тӏымыщ (tʼəməś, “plump, corpulent”), быр-тӏым (bər-tʼəm)
• Ubykh: тым'а (tʼəṃa)

References

• Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) Common West Caucasian: The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology, Leiden: Research School CNWS, →ISBN, page 190: “*tʼa/ǝma/ǝ”
• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ṭŭmhV ( ~ *ṭwĭ-,-ħ-)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers: “*ṭVmIa”
• Ḳvaxaʒe, Aleksandre (2014) Merab Čuxua, editor, Čerkezul ena-ḳilo-tkmata semanṭiḳur-šedarebiti leksiḳoni (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 69
• Ḳvaxaʒe, Aleksandre (2019) Saertoapxazur-adiɣuri ponologiuri sisṭema (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 52