Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/qadale

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.

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Proto-Nakh

Etymology

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Noun

*qadale (stem *qadale-)

mare (female horse)

Descendants

Bats: ჴადალ class bd (qadal)
Vainakh:
- Chechen: кхе̄ла class jj (qeela)
- Ingush: кха̄л class jj (qaal)

Unsorted borrowings

→ Old Georgian: ჴდალი (qdali, “mare”), ჴრდალი (qrdali)
- Georgian: მხდალი (mxdali, “coward, cowardly”), ჴდალი̆ (qdalĭ) — Tusheti, (Khevsureti) ჴდალი (qdali, “mare”), (Khevsureti, Mtiuleti) ჴრდალი (qrdali), (Khevsureti) ჴლდალი (qldali)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1971) “Кавказские этимологии (1—8) [Caucasian etymologies (1–8)]”, in Этимология‎^[1] (in Russian), number 1968, Moscow: Nauka, pages 223–224
Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers: “*qadela ~ *qadale”