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Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/ciciḳ

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

From interjectional origin associated with addressing a wild cat and a diminutive suffix. Compare etymology Hungarian cica (“kitten”), where the diminutive suffix is also used, Slovak cica (“kitten”).

Noun

*ciciḳ

  1. kitten

Descendants
  • Vainakh:
    • Chechen: цициг (cicig)
    • Ingush: циск (cisk)

Further reading
  • Klaproth, Jules (1823) Voyage au mont Caucase et en Georgie (in French), volume II, Paris, page 359
  • 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 8: “ціціг”
  • 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 30: “Cicik”
  • 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 467: “цициг”
  • 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 170: “цициг, циск”
  • 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 29; 374: “цициг, циск”
  • 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 88: “цициг; циск; цицаг”
  • 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 54: “cicig; cisk”
  • Črelašvili, K. T. (2007), G. A. Xaluxajev, editor, Цова-тушинский (бацбийский) язык [The Tsova-Tush (Bats) language]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 271: “cic”
  • Čuxua, Merab (2019), Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎, Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 527: “cisk; cic-ig”
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