Avar edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Northeast Caucasian. Cognate with Andi мичӏчӏи (miččʼi), Tsez меча (meča), Lak мечӏ (mečʼ), Archi мач (mač), Udi мечӏ (meč̣), Khinalug мычӏ (mɨč̣) among others.

Noun edit

мичӏчӏ (miččʼ)

  1. nettle

References edit

  • Abdokov, A. I. (1983) О звуковых и словарных соответствиях северокавказских языков [On phonetic and lexical correspondences of North Caucasian languages] (in Russian), Nalchik: Elbrus, page 108
  • Kibrik, A. Je., Kodzasov, S. V. (1990) Сопоставительное изучение дагестанских языков. Имя. Фонетика [Comparative Study of Dagestan Languages. Substantives. Phonetics] (in Russian), Moscow: University Press, →ISBN, § 212, page 103
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mħä̆nć̣_ĭ ( ~ -ĕ)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Further reading edit

  • 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, pages 215–216
  • 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, page 419
  • Azmaiparašvili, Levan, Ardoṭeli, Nodar, Lolua, Roman, Saniḳiʒe, Laṭavra, Pareuliʒe, Rosṭom (2016) Naxur da daɣesṭnur enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa: I nac̣ili [Nakh-Daghestani comparative grammar: part I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 202
  • Azmaiparašvili, Levan (2017) “мичӏ”, in Xunʒur-kartuli leksiḳoni [Avar-Georgian dictionary], Tbilisi, page 66b
  • Alixanov, S. Z. (2003) “крапива”, in ʻurus–awar slowarʲ / Russko-avarskij slovarʹ [Russian–Avar dictionary], Махачкахала: Дагестанский научный центр РАН, →ISBN, page 330a, spells as мичӏ (mičʼ)