Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/ṭateb

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.

This Proto-Nakh entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Nakh

Etymology

Unknown. Initial d- in Vainakh is secondary under the influence of *dašeb (“gold”).

Noun

*ṭateb

1. silver

Related terms

adjectives

• *ṭatboᶰ (“silver”)

 

Descendants

• Bats: ტათებ (ṭateb)
• Vainakh:
  • Chechen: дети (deti)
  • Ingush: дотув (dotuv)

Further reading

• Klaproth, Jules (1823) Voyage au mont Caucase et en Georgie (in French), volume II, Paris, page 356
• Schiefner, Anton (1856) Versuch über die Thusch-Sprache oder die khistische Mundart in Thuschetien (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 40: “tat̔eb”
• Uslar, Peter von (1888) Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. II. Чеченский язык [Ethnography of the Caucasus. Linguistics. II. The Chechen language] (in Russian), Tiflis: Printing house of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the civil unit in the Caucasus, page 170: “детī ― detī”
• Kadagiʒe, Davit, Kadagiʒe, Niḳo (1984) “ტათებ”, in Arn. Čikobava, editor, C̣ova-tušur-kartul-rusuli leksiḳoni / Цова-тушинско–грузинско–русский словарь [A Tsova-Tush–Georgian–Russian Dictionary]‎^[1], prepared for publication by Rusudan Gagua, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 555
• Macijev, A. G., Ozdojev, I. A., Džamalxanov, Z. D. (1962) Нохчийн-гӏалгӏайн-оьрсийн словарь / Чеченско-ингушско-русский словарь [Chechen–Ingush–Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 58: “дети; дотув ― deti; dotuv”
• Nichols, Johanna B. (2011) Ingush Grammar‎^[2], volume 143, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 57: “dotuu”
• Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1927) Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь [Chechen-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Grozny: Typographic-literary publishing house of the newspaper “Serlo”, Krainatsizdat, page 34: “Deti”
• 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 138: “дети ― deti”
• Kurkijev, A. S. (2005) “дотув”, in Ингушско-русский словарь [Ingush–Russian Dictionary], Magas: Serdalo, page 161
• Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 158: “deti; dotuw; ṭateb”
• Imnajšvili, David S. (1977) Историко-сравнительный анализ фонетики нахских языков / ნახური ჯგუფის ენათა ფონეტიკის ისტორიულ-შედარებითი ანალიზი [Historical and comparative analysis of the phonetics of the Nakh languages] (in Russian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 46: “dotuv; detij”
• 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, pages 355, 418, 445: “доту, тӏатеб, дети ― dotu, tӏateb, deti”
• Arsakhanov, Israil (1959) Аккинский диалект в системе чечено-ингушского языка [Akkin dialect in the system of the Chechen-Ingush language] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 15; 160: “дети; дату; дашув ― deti; datu; dašuv”
• Aliroev, Ibragim Ju. (1975) Сравнительно-сопоставительный словарь отраслевой лексики чеченского и ингушского языков и диалектов [Comparative-Contrastive Dictionary of the Branch Lexicon of the Chechen and Ingush Languages and Dialects] (in Russian), Makhachkala: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 42: “дети, дотув, датув, детив, дати ― deti, dotuv, datuv, detiv, dati”
• Črelašvili, K. T. (2007) G. A. Xaluxajev, editor, Цова-тушинский (бацбийский) язык [The Tsova-Tush (Bats) language]‎^[3] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 267: “ṭateb”