Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/maar

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

*maar

husband

Descendants

Bats: მარ (mar)
Vainakh:
- Chechen: ма̄р (maar)
- Ingush: ма̄р (maar)
→ Svan: მა̄რე (māre), მარე (mare)
→⇒? Old Georgian: სა-მარ-ე (sa-mar-e, “grave, tomb”), სტუმარი (sṭumari, “guest”, literally “wife-husband (?)”)

References

Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mōrŁV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, pages 403–404, links with Svan მა̄რე (māre, “man”)

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