North Caucasian etymology : Query result

Proto-North Caucasian: *ḳǟ[l]ḳV

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: joint, knee, shin

Proto-Nakh: *kōḳ

Proto-Tsezian: *ḳaḳa

Proto-Dargwa: *ḳinḳ(a)

Proto-Lezghian: *ḳälḳ- (~-e-,-r-)

Proto-Khinalug: ḳuḳa

Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are basically regular with following comments: in PN there occurred a dissimilation in glottalisation (*ḳ- > *k- before the following ḳ); in PTs we should expect -ɔ̃- in the 1st syllable, but it was probably assimilated by the following vowel (nasalisation being replaced by pharyngealisation, cf. the Inkh. form?). All these processes are typical for EC reduplicated roots and roots with two stops.

EC > Osset. ḳax 'foot, leg' (see Abayev 1958, 619).