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Proto-North Caucasian: *nŭsA ( ~ -ŏ-)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: daughter-in-law
Proto-Nakh: *nus
Proto-Avaro-Andian: *nusa
Proto-Khinalug: c̣ɨ-nas
Proto-West Caucasian: *nǝsa ( ~ -š-)
Notes: Correspondences are regular, and this is undoubtedly a common NC kinship term. Cf. also HU *nas- > Hurr. naž-ardǝ 'concubines' (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 37). The root has interesting parallels in other linguistic families: Semitic (Arab. niswa 'women', nisāʔ id. - whence Turk. nisa); IE (*snus- 'daughter-in-law') - thus being an old Eurasiatic "Wanderwort".

    See Genko 1930, 725; Balkarov 1965, 17; Abayev 1973, 190; Shagirov 1977, 287-288; Abdokov 1983, 86.

caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-nakh,caucet-aand,caucet-khin,caucet-abad,caucet-comment,

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