дийхк

Ingush

Alternative forms
  • дихк (diχk), дийхкх (dīχq)

Etymology

Uncertain. Has been identified with homonymous дийхк (dīχk), дихк (diχk, “liver”), supposedly because of its internal structure — while decaying and drying out the tree resembles the liver in color,[1] but this probably is a folk etymology. Compare Old Armenian դղքի (dłkʿi, “maple”).

Noun

дийхк • (dīχk)

  1. pine tree

References
  1. Galajeva, Lemka Xamidovna (2006) Fitonimičeskaja leksika v ingušskom jazyke (Dissertacija) [The phytonymic vocabulary in the Ingush language (Dissertation)], Magas, pages 44–45

Further reading
  • Alirojev, I. Ju. (1975) Sravnitelʹno-sopostavitelʹnyj slovarʹ otraslevoj leksiki čečenskovo i ingušskovo jazykov i dialektov [Comparative-Contrastive Dictionary of the Branch Lexicon of the Chechen and Ingush Languages and Dialects], Makhachkala: Čečeno-ingušskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 59
  • Bekova, A. I.; Dudarov, U. B.; Ilijeva, F. M.; Malʹsagova, L. D.; Tarijeva, L. U. (2009), “дийхк”, in Ingušsko-russkij slovarʹ [Ingush–Russian Dictionary], Nalchik: Ingušskij NII GN, page 258b
  • Khalilov, Madzhid (2015), “Ingush dictionary”, in Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2019-09-22
  • Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*dVHVχḳ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
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