Avar-Andian etymology : Query result

Protoform: *ʔ[u]ba ( ~ -o)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 kiss 2 to kiss

Avar: ubá 1, baʔ- 2

Andian language: hobba-d- 2

Chamalal: obba 1

Tindi: oba 1

Godoberi: oba-di 1

Comments: An expressive root with somewhat irregular correspondences.

Protoform: *ʔubV-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: second cousin

Chamalal: uba-b (Gig.)

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

Protoform: *ʔuƛ̣i-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: last year

Avar: uƛ̣i-sa (Andal.)

Comments: Isolated in Southern Avar, but having good Tsezian parallels.

Protoform: *ʔumco

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: ox

Avar: oc

Chadakolob: oš

Andian language: unso

Akhvakh: ũča

Chamalal: musa

Tindi: musa

Karata: unsa

Botlikh: unsa

Bagvalal: unsa

Godoberi: unsa

Comments: Av. paradigm B (ocó-l, ocá-l, Chad. ošó-l, uš-bí). Cf. also Bagv. Tlond. musa, Akhv. Tseg., Tlan. ʕunča. The Cham., Tind. and Bagv. (Tlond.) forms with metathesized nasal prove that it had been *-m- (not *-n-) in PA.

Protoform: *ʔunka(~ʔinkʷa,-o,m)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 name of a vermin, harmful insect 2 beetle

Avar: núka 1

Akhvakh: ʕunka 2

Comments: Av. has a usual metathesis in Anlaut (nuka < *ʔunka).

Protoform: *ʔuntV-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: sickness, ailment

Avar: únti

Comments: Cf. also únt-ize 'to be sick' (únti is formally a deverbative noun).

Protoform: *ʔurʁV-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: think

Avar: urʁ-

Tindi: urʁ-iji-

Karata: urʁ-

Godoberi: urʁĩ-

Comments: Andian forms may be loaned from Av.; certainly an Av. loanword is Cham. urʁī-la 'think'. Av. úrʁel 'thought, anxiety' > Lak. urʁil id.

Protoform: *ʔVb-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: say

Avar: ábi-ze

Chadakolob: min-

Comments: In Av. Chad. the verb has passed into -n-conjugation (min- < *(a)bi-n-). The root is isolated in Av., but has reliable external parallels.

Protoform: *ʔVdV- ?

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: eat

Chamalal: od-

Comments: An isolated Cham. stem with obscure etymology.

Protoform: *ʔVḳ:ʷVn-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: small, little

Andian language: č̣:an-ṭi

Akhvakh: ĩḳ:ʷa;ḳ:ana-da

Tindi: ḱ:anu-

Comments: Tind. > Inkh. ḳanur 'small'.

Protoform: *ʔV(n)ʁV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: heel

Avar: eʁé

Chadakolob: eʁél

Comments: Av. paradigm C (aʁá-lzul, úʁ-dul; Chad. eʁél-dul, úʁla-l). The Chad. form has a suffixed -l. A derivate of the same root is probably the stem oʁo- in Av. oʁó-kʷer, oʁó-q:at 'palm (of hand)', Chad. oʁó-b 'span (between the thumb and fore-finger)'.

Protoform: *ʔVnV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: rheumatism

Avar: onó-d (dial.)

Comments: The Av. form reflects a former plural in -d. If we take into account the original meaning 'movement of air' ( > 'sound'), we could compare also the Tind. verbal root un- 'to talk, speak' (otherwise isolated).

Protoform: *ʔVpVlV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: lid, cover

Avar: epel (Andal.)

Comments: Cited from Микаилов 1959; the same form in Av. Shul.

Protoform: *ʔVrV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: ditch

Avar: or

Comments: Av. paradigm A or C (pl. óra-l).

Protoform: *ʔVs(V)ḳV- ?

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: near

Avar: asḳó-b

Chadakolob: ašḳu

Comments: The root is attested only in Avar; etymology obscure.

Protoform: *ʔʷinʔʷinčV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: hen

Andian language: ũʔẽcu

Chamalal: ũča

Tindi: ōča

Karata: ʕuʕuča

Bagvalal: ʕuʕuča

Godoberi: oʔoča

Comments: Irregular is -c- in And. (-č- would be expected). Cf. also Cham. Gig. oča, U.-Gakv. ũʔãča, Kar. Tok. jiʕaču.

Protoform: *ʕVnV (~-m-)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: hyena

Avar: ʕan-gúr

Comments: The Av. word is a compound where the second part (-gur) goes back to PEC *gwērdV 'bird or beast of prey' (q.v.).

Protoform: *-asara- (~ -o-)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: old, worn out

Avar: -asrá-ja-b

Akhvakh: -aša-da-

Comments: Akhv. -aša-da- < *-asar-da-, cf. Akhv. Tseg., Tlan. -ašara-ʎa-b id.

Protoform: *-ašV ?

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: white

Akhvakh: -ašida

Comments: An isolated Akhv. form with obscure etymology.

Protoform: *b

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 3d (inanim. sing.) class 2 4th (inanim. sing.-plur.) class 3 3d (inanim. sing.-plur.) class 4 1t and 2d (anim.) plural and 3d (inanim. sing.) class

Avar: b 1

Andian language: b 1, 2

Akhvakh: b 4

Chamalal: b 4

Tindi: b 4

Karata: b 4

Botlikh: b 3

Bagvalal: b 4

Godoberi: b 4