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Reconstruction:Proto-Lezghian/req̇ʷ

Proto-Lezghian

Etymology

Nikolayev / Starostin derive from Proto-Northeast Caucasian *rʕēnq̇wɨ (“lock”).

Has been compared to Proto-Georgian-Zan *rḳina- (“iron”), Old Armenian երկաթ (erkatʿ, “iron”), երկինք (erkinkʿ, “sky”).

Noun

*req̇ʷ

  1. iron

Descendants
  • Aghul: рукь (ruq̇)
  • Lezgi: ракь (raq̇)
  • Tabasaran: рукь (ruq̇)

References
  • Bork, Ferdinand (1907) Beiträge zur Kaukasischen Sprachwissenschaft. T. 1. Kaukasische Miszellen (in German), Königsberg: R. Leupold, pages 18–19
  • Erckert, Roderich von (1895) Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes. I. Theil. Wörterverzeichniss (in German), Vienna: Alfred Hölder, § 103, page 57
  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kartvelʹskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 157
  • Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*rʕēnq̇wɨ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, pages 943–944
  • Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*rḳina-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages, retrieved 2016-06-19
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