< Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh
Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/serliᶰ
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Proto-Nakh
Etymology
Unknown.
Adjective
*serliᶰ[1]
- light
Descendants
- Vainakh:
- Chechen: сирла (sirla)
- Ingush: сийрда (siirda)
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 209: “сирлиң”
- 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 96: “Sirlinig”
- Mutalijev, Xadži-Bekir Šovxalovič (1941) Эрсий-гӏалгӏай словарь юххьерча школенна / Русско-ингушский словарь для начальной школы [Russian-Ingush dictionary for elementary school] (in Ingush and Russian), Grozny: Chechingosizdat, page 109: “сийрда”
- 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 364: “сирла”
References
- 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:, ISSN 2375-2068, page 105: “*serliᶰ”