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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/-aᶰ

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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Verb

*-aᶰ pf (imperfective *-aᶰ)

  1. The infinitive ending of verbs.

Descendants
  • Bats: -აჼ (-ã)
  • Vainakh:
    • Chechen: -а (-a)
    • Ingush: -а (-a)

Derived terms
  • See Category:Proto-Nakh verbs.

References
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L.; Starostin, Sergei A. (1994), “*-n”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  • Handel, Zev (2003), “Ingush inflectional verb morphology”, in Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite, editors, Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson‎ (in English), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, page 157: “-an”
  • Nichols, Johanna (2004), “The Origin of the Chechen and Ingush: A Study in Alpine Linguistic and Ethnic Geography”, in Anthropological Linguistics (in English), volume 46, issue 2, Bloomington, Indiana: Trustees of Indiana University, →JSTOR, page 137: “-an”
  • 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 (in English), volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 94: “-aᶰ”
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