Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *HēnqwV́

Meaning: meadow

North Caucasian: *HēnqwV

Yenisseian: *ʔoGV (~x-,-ō-)

Basque: *angio

Comments and references : BCD 27.

North Caucasian etymology :

Proto-North Caucasian: *HēnqwV

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: meadow, plot

Proto-Tsezian: *ʔoχV (~ ǝ,Ṽ,ʁ:)

Proto-Lezghian: *ʔeχIʷ- (~ *ʔuχI-)

Proto-Khinalug: ɨnqa

Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level.

Tsezian etymology :

Proto-Tsezian: *ʔoχV (~ ǝ,Ṽ,ʁ:)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: a small plot of land

Bezhta: öʁä (Khosh.)

Comments: Attested only in Bezht., but having probable external parallels.

Lezghian etymology :

Proto-Lezghian: *ʔeχIʷ- (~ *ʔuχI-)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 virgin soil, fallow 2 meadow

Tabasaran: uχIaw

Rutul: uχIa-l (Ibragimov)

Comment: Cf. also Tab. Düb. uχIaw 'virgin soil, fallow'.

Khinalug etymology :

Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *ʔoGV (~x-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: meadow

Ket: u:, pl. ɔʔŋ

Yug: o: / ou³, pl. ɔʔŋ

Kottish: ōx, pl. ōgaŋ

Arin: (?) jújuŋ (М., Сл., Кл.) "grass"

Comments: ССЕ 197. Cf. also Ket. ɔɣǝ⁵ (South. also ɔ:⁵) 'a low-down place overflown in spring': perhaps an alternative rendering of the same word. See Werner 2, 48, 376 <*ogǝ>.

Basque etymology :

Proto-Basque: *angio

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: pasture, meadow

Bizkaian: angio, angia, angi

Low Navarrese: xangio

Comments: Wider distribution is indicated by the GIP place name Angio-zar 'old pasture'. The BNV form contains an expressive prefix *č- (= PEC *č- ~ *č̣-).

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