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Reconstruction:Proto-Northeast Caucasian/weršē
Proto-Northeast Caucasian
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā (“virile man; male animal, stallion, bull”).[1][2]
Noun
*weršē[1][3][2]
- bull calf
- male
Descendants
- Archi: бошор (bošor)
- Proto-Avaro-Andian: *bišʷa[2]
- Akhvakh: буша (buša)
- Avar: баси́ (bası̇́)
- Tindi: боха (boha)
- Proto-Nakh: *borš
- Bats: ბორშ (borš)
- Vainakh:
- Chechen: борш (borš)
- Ingush: борш (borš)
References
- Dʹjakonov, I. M.; Starostin, S. A. (2007), “Indojevropejsko-severnokavkazskije izoglossy”, in Starostin, G. S., editor, Trudy po jazykoznaniju [Proceedings in Linguistics] (in Russian), Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kulʹtur, →ISBN, page 314: “ПВК *werše”
- Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*wĕršē”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
- Aharon Dolgopolsky (1974), “О ностратической системе аффрикат и сибилянтов: корни с фонемой *ʒ”, in Этимология 1972, Moscow, page 171: “11. ... и.-е. *wersē-/-i- 'теленок, кабан'”