Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/kori

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

Borrowed from Old Georgian ქორი (kori), unless Proto-Georgian-Zan *kor- would be a borrowing from Proto-Nakh, as suggested by Nikolaev & Starostin (1994).

Noun

*kori

hawk

Descendants

Bats: ქუჲრი̆ class dd (kuyrĭ)
Vainakh:
- Chechen: куьйра class dd (küüra)
- Ingush: кер class dd (ker)

References

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, page 103
Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “kōri”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers