Reconstruction:Proto-Northwest Caucasian/śʷasá

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This Proto-Northwest Caucasian 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-Northwest Caucasian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From early Proto-Northwest Caucasian *sösa, from Proto-North Caucasian *s̱wēsǝ ~ *s̱wēsa (bride).

Noun[edit]

*śʷasá[1][2]

  1. bride

Descendants[edit]

  • Proto-Circassian: *pśaśá (see there for further descendants)
  • Ubykh: śasá (bride)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*s_wēsǝ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  2. ^ The template Template:R:cau-nwc:CWC does not use the parameter(s):
    head=*(p)śasá
    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.
    Chirikba, Viacheslav A. (1996) Common West Caucasian: The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology, Leiden: Research School CNWS, →ISBN, page 361:*(p)śasá