Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/lāči

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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/lāči

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

Etymology

Unknown. Compare with Proto-Turkic *lāčïn (“falcon”); Lak лачин (lačin, “falcon”); Avar лаче́н (lačén, “falcon”).

Noun

*lāči[1]

1. falcon

Descendants

• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: ле̄ча (leeča)
  • Ingush: лаьча (läča)

Further reading

• 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 243: “ле̄чi”
• 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 269: “ле̃ча”
• 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 90: “лӣе̄ча, лаьча, лӣеча, ле̄ч, ла̄чи”
• Arsakhanov, Israil (1959) Аккинский диалект в системе чечено-ингушского языка [Akkin dialect in the system of the Chechen-Ingush language] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 92: “ляча”
• 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 58: “леча”
• Alirojev, Ibragim Ju. (2001) Флора и фауна Чечни и Ингушетии [The Flora and the Fauna of Chechnya and Ingushetia], Moscow: Academia, →ISBN, page 155: “лиеча; лаьча; леч; лачи”
• 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 17, 75, 110: “lēča; lāča; lēči; lā̈ča”
• Kurkijev, A. S. (2005), “лаьча”, in Ингушско-русский словарь [Ingush–Russian Dictionary], Magas: Serdalo, page 278
• 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 105: “леча, лаьча”
• 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 75: “Leči”

References

1. Schrijver, Peter (2021), “A history of the vowel systems of the Nakh languages (East Caucasian), with special reference to umlaut in Chechen and Ingush”, in Languages of the Caucasus‎ (in English), volume 5, DOI:10.5070/L95057353, ISSN 2375-2068, page 101: “*laːči”