Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/eepu

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

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Noun

*eepu

1. hamster, gopher

Descendants

• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: о̄ьпа (ööpa)
  • Ingush: эп (ep)

Further reading

• 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^[1], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 114, 123: “*epu”