Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/gub

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

*gub

island

Descendants

Bats: გუბ class bd (gub, “island”)
Vainakh:
- Chechen: гӯ class bd (guu, “hill”)
- Ingush: гув class bd (guv, “hill”)

References

Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*gub (~ -ū-)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

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