Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/kor

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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/kor

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.

Proto-Nakh

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

*kor

1. window

Descendants

• Bats: ქორ (kor)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen:
    • Literary: кор (kor, “window; attic, loft”)
  • Ingush: кор (kor)

References

• Климов, Г. А.; Халилов, М. Ш. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 122
• Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*kōr-”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Further reading

• Goniašvili, Tinatin (1940), “Leksiḳuri šexvedrebi čačnurisa kartvelur enebtan [The lexical interactions of Chechen with Kartvelian languages]”, in Enis, isṭoriisa da maṭerialuri ḳulṭuris insṭiṭuṭis aḳademiḳos niḳo maris saxelobis moambe (in Georgian), volume V–VI, Tbilisi, page 615 of 575–632, compares Old Georgian ქორი (kori, “(room) upstairs; home”), Svan ქორ (kor, “house”)