Reconstruction:Proto-Tsezian/oχ

Proto-Tsezian

Noun

*oχ

1. garden
2. grape

Descendants

• Tsez-Hinukh :
  • Tsez: ахи (axi)
  • Hinukh: ахибакӏ (axibak’)
• Bezhta-Hunzib-Khwarshi :
  • Bezhta: аьгь (äh)
    • Tlyadal dialect : аьхӏ (äḥ)
  • Hunzib: ахӏ (aḥ)
  • Khwarshi :
    • Khwarshi : огь (oh, “grape”)
    • Inkhoqwari : огь (oh, “grape”)

References

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ʔɔχ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
• Comrie, Bernard, Khalilov, Madzhid (2010) Словарь языков и диалектов народов Северного Кавказа: Сопоставление основной лексики [The Dictionary of languages and dialects of the peoples of the Northern Caucasus: Comparison of the basic lexicon], Leipzig and Makhachkala: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, § 8.130, page 383