зӏий

Borrowed from substrate, from Old Georgian გრძღაბი (grʒɣabi).

Genko (1930) compares the Ingush form with the Ossetian one, while Abaev (1989) considers the Ingush form to be borrowing from Ossetian. However, the Ingush form must be related to the Old Georgian form due to the length of the vowel and the pharyngealization of the consonant. Compare with жӏалӣ (žˀalii, “dog”), how the phoneme ღ (ɣ) of Old Georgian becomes /ʕ/ in the Vainakh.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzʕiː/

зӏий • (zˀii) class jj

1. hedgehog

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Nichols, Johanna B. (2004), “зӏий”, in Ingush–English and English–Ingush Dictionary, London and New York: Routledge, page 79b

• Genko, Anatolii N. (1930), “Из культурного прошлого ингушей [From the cultural past of the Ingush]”, in Записки коллегии востоковедов при Азиатском музее АН СССР, volume V, Leningrad, page 717 of 681–761
• Abajev, V. I. (1989), Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 129
• Cheung, Johnny (2002), Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN, page 245