Avar-Andian etymology : Query result

Protoform: *buš:i

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: dung (of sheep)

Chamalal: bus:i

Comments: Attested only in Cham.; however, it is clear that we must reconstruct -š:- because of the Inkh. loanword bušar id. (reflecting the old collective form).

Protoform: *buṭa

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: vulva, vagina

Andian language: buṭa

Akhvakh: buṭa

Chamalal: buṭa

Tindi: buṭa

Karata: buṭa

Botlikh: buṭa

Bagvalal: buṭa

Godoberi: buṭa

Comments: Tind. > Inkh. buṭa id.

Protoform: *b-uṭV / *ṭubi

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: part

Avar: buṭá

Akhvakh: ṭubi

Chamalal: ṭub

Tindi: ṭubi

Karata: ṭube

Bagvalal: ṭub

Godoberi: ṭubi

Comments: The PA *ṭubi is a metathesis ( < *b-uṭi), as seen from the Avar parallel. Av. buṭá was borrowed in some Andian languages (Akhv. Tseg., Kar. Rats. buṭa), as well as in Lak. (buṭa 'part'), Darg. (Ak., Ur., Kait., Kub., Tsud. buṭa) and Arch. (buṭi 'part').

Protoform: *-bV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: imper. intrans. (also *-bV-r, *bV-l- in conditional)

Andian language: -ob (nas. -om)

Chamalal: -a-be (pl. a-bi)

Tindi: -i-ba (pl. -i-bi)

Botlikh: -ba (nas. -ma)

Bagvalal: -be (nas. -me)

Godoberi: -abe (nas. -ame)

Protoform: *bVgV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: supper, evening meal; evening

Avar: bog

Comments: Av. paradigm B or C (gen. bogó-l). Several And. forms (Kar. bogoƛ: "in the evening', Cham. bug 'supper time') are probably borrowed from Av.

Protoform: *bVʎVn

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: wild-boar, pig

Avar: boʎón

Chadakolob: botón

Comments: The word is widely spread in Andian languages, but only as a loan from Av. (cf. Akhv. boʎo, Cham. boʎũ, Gig. boʎon, Tind. boʎon > Khvarsh., Inkh. bolhon etc.).

Protoform: *bV(r)ḳʷo-lV /-nV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 stairs 2 ladder

Andian language: barḳʷol 1

Chamalal: beḳʷana 1,2

Tindi: beḳʷana 1

Comments: Cf. also Cham. Gig. (Bok.) beḳʷana 'funeral stretcher', (MSU) 'wooden ladder'.

Protoform: *bVs(:)-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: orphan

Avar: bes-da-la=

Comments: The stem besdal is also used adverbially (e.g. besdal harize 'to become an orphan, lose one's parents' etc.). Known Andian forms (Kar. bes:tala=, God. besdal) are most probably borrowed from Avar.

Protoform: *bVṭV

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: bow; spring

Avar: buṭ

Chadakolob: č̣ór-buṭ

Comments: Av. paradigm A (gen. búṭi-l). Av. č̣ór-buṭ (the same in literary Av.) is a compound with č̣or 'arrow' q.v. Av. > And. č̣orbuṭi, Arch. č̣orbuṭ 'bow'.

Protoform: *bVxʷi / *xʷibV-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 luck 2 good

Avar: baxí 1

Andian language: šu-b 2

Akhvakh: šo-da-be 2

Chamalal: hō-b 2

Comments: Cf. Cham. Gig. hu-b id. (suggesting *x- in PA). In PA *-b- in *xʷibV- was reanalyzed as a class suffix (*xʷibV-b > *xʷi(b)-b).

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