< Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh
Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/lām
 | 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. |
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Proto-Nakh
*lām
Etymology
Unknown. The nominative wordform in Ingush was aligned according to oblique cases, otherwise the wordform ла̄м (laam) would have been expected.
Noun
*lām
- mountain
Descendants
- Bats: ლამ (lam)
- Vainakh:
- Chechen: ла̄м (laam)
- Ingush: лоам (loam)
Further reading
- Schiefner, Anton (1856) Versuch über die Thusch-Sprache oder die khistische Mundart in Thuschetien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, pages 154: “lam”
- 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, pages 44: “ла̄м”
- 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 73: “Lam”
- 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 260: “лам”
- Malʹsagov, Zaurbek K. (1963) Грамматика ингушского языка [Grammar of the Ingush language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Grozny: Chechen-Ingush book publishing house, pages 115: “лоам”
- 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 102: “лам, лоам”
- Nichols, Johanna B. (2011) Ingush Grammar (in English), volume 143, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 377: “loam”