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Reconstruction:Proto-Northeast Caucasian/weršē

This Proto-Northeast 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-Northeast Caucasian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā (“virile man; male animal, stallion, bull”).[1][2]

Noun

*weršē[1][3][2]

  1. bull calf
  2. male

Descendants
  • Archi: бошор (bošor)
  • Proto-Avaro-Andian: *bišʷa[2]
    • Akhvakh: буша (buša)
    • Avar: баси́ (bası̇́)
    • Tindi: боха (boha)
  • Proto-Nakh: *borš

References
  1. 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 ― PVK *werše”
  2. Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*wĕršē”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  3. 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'”
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