Reconstruction:Proto-Nakh/ṭaliḳ

From earlier *ṭal +‎ *-iḳ.

The Chechen and Ingush forms of the пӀелг are independent contamination with the Russian form of the па́лец (pálec, “finger”). In the Bats form, perhaps by analogy, the phoneme l has changed to r.

*ṭaliḳ

1. finger or toe

• Bats: ტარკ (ṭarḳ)
• Vainakh:
  • Old Chechen: пӏелиг (pʼelig)
    • Chechen: пӏелг (pʼelg), тӏелг (tʼelg)
      • Akkin Chechen: пӏаьлг (pʼälg), цӏаьлг (cʼälg)
      • Chebarloish Chechen: пӏалиг (pʼalig)
      • Galanchozh Chechen:
        • Lamakkin Chechen: тӏаьлг (tʼälg)
        • Melkhin Chechen: тӏаьльг (tʼälʲg)
  • Ingush: пӏелг (pʼelg), пӏаьльг (pʼälʲg), тӏелг (tʼelg), тӏаьльг (tʼälʲg)

• 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 28: “цӏаьлг; пӏаьльг ― cӏaʹlg; pӏaʹlʹg”
• 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 25; 139: “тӏаьльг ― tӏaʹlʹg”
• Arsakhanov, Israil (1969) Чеченская диалектология [Chechen dialectology] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 59: “пӏалиг”
• Arsakhanov, Israil (1969) Чеченская диалектология [Chechen dialectology] (in Russian), Grozny: Chechen-Ingush Book Publishing House, page 123: “тӏаьлг ― tӏaʹlg”
• 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: “ԥеліг”