Reconstruction:Proto-Northwest Caucasian/pǝχ́ʷA
Proto-Northwest Caucasian
editEtymology
editPerhaps the original meaning was “woman, wife”, as testified by a few compounds, such as Abkhaz аԥҳәыс (apḥʷəs, “woman”) or Ubykh pχʲašʷ (“wife”).
Noun
edit*pǝχ́ʷA
Descendants
edit- Proto-Circassian: *pχʷǝ (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza: *pǝħa
- Ubykh: ԥхьа (pxʲa)
References
edit- Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers: “*pǝχ́ʷA”