Reconstruction:Proto-Northeast Caucasian/ḳwēmṭī
Proto-Northeast Caucasian
editAlternative forms
editNoun
edit*ḳwēmṭī[1]
Descendants
edit- Proto-Avaro-Andian: *ḳʷiṭi (“lip”)
- Proto-Dargwa: *ḳʷenṭ (“lip”)
- Dargwa: кӏентӏ (ḳenṭ)
- Proto-Lezghian: *ḳʷenṭ (“lip”)
- (perhaps) Khinalug: кӏыты́р (ḳɨtɨ́r, “nose”)
- (perhaps) → Old Armenian: քիթ (kʻitʻ, “nose”)
References
edit- ^ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ḳwēmṭī”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, page 733