Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/buhu

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.

This Proto-Nakh entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Nakh

Etymology

Unknown. With uncertainty, the diphthong in the Bats is a contamination with *busja (“night”).

Noun

*buhu

1. owl

Descendants

• Bats: ბუჲჰ (buyh)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: бухӏа (buha)
  • Ingush: бов (bov)

Further reading

• Schiefner, Anton (1856) Versuch über die Thusch-Sprache oder die khistische Mundart in Thuschetien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 146: “bui”
• Schiefner, Anton (1864) Tschetschenzische Studien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 67: “buhu”
• Malʹsagov, Zaurbek K. (1925) Ингушская грамматика [Ingush Grammar]‎^[1] (in Russian), 1nd edition, Vladikavkaz: Printing house Svet, page 180: “bov”
• Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1927) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь (in Russian), Grozny: Typographic-literary publishing house of the newspaper “Serlo”, Krainatsizdat, page 26: “buhu”
• Malsagov, Zaurbek K. (1936) Известия Чечено-Ингушского Научно-Исследовательского Института: Очерк аккинского (ауховского) языка [The News of the Chechen-Ingush Research Institute: A sketch of the Akkin language] (in Russian), volume 1 (4), Grozny: Printing house of the Chechen-Ingush Research Institute, page 75: “buhə”
• Mutalijev, Xadži-Bekir Šovxalovič (1941) Эрсий-гӏалгӏай словарь юххьерча школенна / Русско-ингушский словарь для начальной школы [Russian-Ingush dictionary for elementary school] (overall work in Ingush and Russian), Grozny: Chechingosizdat, page 116: “бов”
• Arsakhanov, Israil (1959) Аккинский диалект в системе чечено-ингушского языка [Akkin dialect in the system of the Chechen-Ingush language] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 157: “бухӏа”
• Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь [Chechen-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 74: “бухӏа”
• Macijev, A. G., Ozdojev, I. A., Džamalxanov, Z. D. (1962) Нохчийн-гӏалгӏайн-оьрсийн словарь / Чеченско-ингушско-русский словарь [Chechen–Ingush–Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 33: “бухӏа; бов ― buxӏa; bov”
• Aliroev, Ibragim Ju. (1975) Сравнительно-сопоставительный словарь отраслевой лексики чеченского и ингушского языков и диалектов [Comparative-Contrastive Dictionary of the Branch Lexicon of the Chechen and Ingush Languages and Dialects] (in Russian), Makhachkala: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 100: “бухӏа, бӏов//бов, буихӏ, бухӏ, бухӏу ― buxӏa, bӏov//bov, buixӏ, buxӏ, buxӏu”
• Kurkijev, A. S. (2005) “бов”, in Ингушско-русский словарь [Ingush–Russian Dictionary], Magas: Serdalo, page 65
• 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, page 246: “buha; bow; bujh”