Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/tuxi

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

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Noun

*tuxi

1. salt

Descendants

• Bats: თუჲხი̆ class dd (tuyxĭ)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: туьха class dd (tüxa)
  • Ingush: тух class dd (tux) (< obl. *tux-)

References

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*tuχe”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
• 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, page 187: “*tuχV-”
• 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^[2], volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 107: “*tuxe ~ *tuxi”