хьаьжкӏа

Chechen

Etymology

Compound of хьаьж (ḥʳäž, “hajj”) +‎ кӏа (kʼa, “wheat”).[1][2] Possibly a calque from Kumyk гьабижай (habijay, “corn, maize”) with a metathesis from compound of гьаж (haj, “hajj”) + будай (buday, “wheat”),[2] if not the other way around.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈħæʒkʼa/

Noun

хьаьжкӏа • (ḥʳäžkʼa) class jj

  1. corn, maize

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • → Ingush: хьажкӏа (ḥʳažkʼa) (calque)

References

  1. ^ Desheriev, Yunus D. (1963) Сравнительно-историческая грамматика нахских языков и проблемы происхождения и исторического развития горских кавказских народов [Comparative-historical grammar of the Nakh languages and the problems of the origin and historical development of the mountain Caucasian peoples] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 359
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Xašajev, X.-M. O. (1959) Занятия населения Дагестана в XIX веке [Occupations of the population of Dagestan in the 19ᵗʰ century] (in Russian), Makhachkala: Dagestan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, pages 42–43

Further reading

  • Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь [Chechen-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 452
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