Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/xеᶰ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/xеᶰ

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

*xеᶰ

1. tree
2. wood, piece of wood

Descendants

• Bats: ხე^ნ (xeⁿ, “tree”)
  • → Old Georgian: ხე (xe)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen:
    • Old Chechen: хиең (xijeң)
      • Literary: хен (xen, “tree (archaic); wood, piece of wood”)
  • Ingush: хи (xi, “trunk of a tree; beam, timber, log”)

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 34
• Kadagiʒe, Davit; Kadagiʒe, Niḳo (1984), “ხე^ნ”, in Arn. Čikobava, editor, C̣ova-tušur-kartul-rusuli leksiḳoni / Цова-тушинско–грузинско–русский словарь [A Tsova-Tush–Georgian–Russian Dictionary], prepared for publication by Rusudan Gagua, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 806
• Klimov, G. A.; Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, pages 212–213