Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/cic

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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/cic

This Proto-Nakh entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

This Proto-Nakh entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Nakh

*cic Caucasian wildcat

Etymology

Unknown. Compare with Proto-Kartvelian *cic(o)- (“species of cat”) and Proto-Northwest Caucasian *ćːǝdzá (“weasel; marten; beaver”).[1] The etymology of the Bats wordform is incomprehensible. The wordform can be inherited from this Proto-Nakh form, or it can be borrowed from Georgian ციცა (cica, “cat”) later. If we assume that this wordform is compatible with Chechen цӏецайоккхург (cʼecajoqqurg, “weasel”) and Ingush цицхолг (cicxolg, “rat”), then the wordform *cic has undergone assimilation from *c̣ic.

Noun

*cic

1. cat

Derived terms

nouns

• *ciciḳ (“little cat”)

 

Descendants

• >? Bats: ციცო̂ (cicô)
• Vainakh:
  • ⇒ Chechen: цициг (cicig)
  • ⇒ Ingush: циск (cisk)

Further reading

• Črelašvili, K. T. (2007), G. A. Xaluxajev, editor, Цова-тушинский (бацбийский) язык [The Tsova-Tush (Bats) language]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 271: “cic”
• Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь [Chechen-Russian dictionary]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 467: “цициг”
• Desheriev, Yunus D. (1963) Сравнительно-историческая грамматика нахских языков и проблемы происхождения и исторического развития горских кавказских народов [Comparative-historical grammar of the Nakh languages and the problems of the origin and historical development of the mountain Caucasian peoples] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 29; 374: “цициг, циск”
• Dzhamalkhanov, Zaindi D.; et al. (1962) Нохчийн-гӏалгӏайн-оьрсийн словарь / Чеченско-ингушско-русский словарь [Chechen-Ingush-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 170: “цициг, циск”
• Uslar, Peter von (1888) Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. II. Чеченский язык [Ethnography of the Caucasus. Linguistics. II. The Chechen language] (in Russian), Tiflis: Printing house of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the civil unit in the Caucasus, page 8: “ціціг”
• Aliroev, Ibragim Ju. (1975) Сравнительно-сопоставительный словарь отраслевой лексики чеченского и ингушского языков и диалектов [Comparative-Contrastive Dictionary of the Branch Lexicon of the Chechen and Ingush Languages and Dialects] (in Russian), Makhachkala: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 88: “цициг; циск; цицаг”
• Imnajšvili, David S. (1977) Историко-сравнительный анализ фонетики нахских языков / ნახური ჯგუფის ენათა ფონეტიკის ისტორიულ-შედარებითი ანალიზი [Historical and comparative analysis of the phonetics of the Nakh languages] (in Russian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 54: “cicig; cisk”
• Čuxua, Merab (2019), Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎, Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 527: “cisk; cic-ig”
• Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1927) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь [Chechen-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Grozny: Typographic-literary publishing house of the newspaper “Serlo”, Krainatsizdat, page 30: “Cicik”

References

1. Čuxua, Merab (2019), Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎, Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 527: “*cic-a”