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A. V a g a p o v (Grozny)
On Origin of Some Names of Animals in Chechen
Buož ‘he-goat’ (Ing. buog, Bats. b'ok'). Origin from Pranakh. *bag (cf.
Ch. pl. bežaloj < bažiloj), wich correlates to Kab. bžen ‘she-goat’, Adygh.
bž’e ‘horn’, Dargva bek’, Lak bak’ ‘head, leader’ and PIE *bog- ‘with curved
horns’ in OIc bokkr, OHG boc, OIr boc, Pers boz ‘buck’. Cf also Svan. pik’w
‘castrated he-goat’ (< *bik’w < *bak’w). Related to Chech buoža ‘man’, pl.
buožarij, buožaber ‘boy’, Tab baž ‘boy’, pl. bažar, Lith. buože ‘head, hump,
bunch’, buožis ‘man with big head’.
Buorš ‘stirk’ (Ing buorš, Bats borš, pl. baršuj). Related to Skrt. vrşa-
‘bull, ox’, vrşan ‘male’, varşati ‘to rain’, Avest. varešna ‘male’, L *versеs
‘wild boar’, Lith. veršis ‘calf’, Latv. versis ‘ox’. Originally barš ‘fecundating,
impregnating’, cf Gen. baršan, pl. beršaloj < baršiloj, buoršalla ‘fecunation,
impregnation’. Possibly related to Avar barši ‘maturity’, Cham. baršila ‘maturing’.
Bula ‘bison’ – Dag. *bol’on / *bul’un ‘swine, hog’ (Avar bul’on, Andi
bol’on, bul’uni), Adyg blane ‘courageous, energeting’, Kabar. blane ‘strong’,
‘best’, ‘fallow-deer, doe’ – PIE *bul- ‘swell, big; ox’ (MHG bulle, OE bula,
bull ‘ox’, ON boli, OHG boln ‘big’) – Turk *bolan ‘els, stag’. From Nostratic
*bulun ‘big, strong animal’, related to Chech. b-ula n ‘strain, load (gun)’, Skrt
bala ‘force’, balavant ‘strong’, bala-da ‘bull’.
Saj ‘stag’ (Ing saj, Bats sag). Formed with suff. -g from Nakh. *sa ‘corner,
horn’ and literally means ‘horned animal’, cf. semantically Lat. ceruus ‘deer’,
Greek keras ‘horn’, kar ‘head’, Nakh *kar ‘head, horn’ > Chech. kur, pl.
karraš. Related to Ch. sag // stag ‘man’, Iran *saka ‘fork, bifurcation, branch,
horn’, Osset. sag ‘stag’.
Sag // stag // tag ‘husband, man’ (Ing sag, Bats stak’), having parallels in
Caucasian languages (Gunzib suk’u, Bezhit. suk’o, Tcez. žek’u, Khvarsh.
žik’wa ‘man’, Lak ttukku ‘donkey’) and some other languages: Hurrit. taghe
‘man, male’, OE secg ‘man’, Eng. stag.. Nakh. *sag ‘stag’ (> stag > tag).
Su // stu // tu ‘ox’ (Ing ust, Bats pst’u). From Nakh *sa(r) // *sta(r) //
*ta(r), related to PIE *(s)taru // *(s)taur- ‘ox, bull’ (Lat. taurus, Lith. tauras,
O-Sl. turъ, ORus. тур, Alb. tarok, Gall. tarvos, OIr. tarb ‘ox’) and Semit.
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