дийхк

Ingush

Alternative forms
  • дихк (dixk), дийхкх (diı̇xq)

Etymology

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

Noun

дийхк • (diı̇xk)

  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
  • 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 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) “дихк”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, Ingush dictionary‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2019-09-22
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*dVHVχḳ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
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