ნჵაჲჸსაჼ

Uncertain. Compound of ნჵაჸიჰʼ (n'aʾihʼ, “outside, outdoors”) +‎ სანი (sani, “door(s)”). The locative marker -ჰ̡ (-h̡) is often dropped due to word-final /ħ/ deletion rule.^[1] When forming a three-syllable form, the vowel of the second syllable is reduced and metathesized into the first syllable, thereby actually forming a two-syllable form (for example ჺაბიკ (ʿabiḳ, “spoon”), ჺაჲბკევ (ʿaybḳev, “spoon.INS”)). During word formation, the form სანი (sani) may have lost the final stress characteristic of plural wordforms, which caused vowel reduction and nasalization (compare with ავშაჼ (avšã), ადმიაჼ (admiã), აკვაჼ (aḳvã), დუქაჼ (dukã), etc.).

• Desheriev (1953) compares the first part with Chechen неӏ (neˀ) and Ingush ниӏ (niˀ), and the second part with Russian се́ни (séni), which is rather doubtful.
• Nikolaev, Starostin (1994) believe that the form is derived from the oblique stem Proto-Nakh *nHaʔ- + *saᶰ, however, only derivatives (locative forms) of the first form have been preserved, and the second form was attested in dictionaries only in the second millennium.

• IPA^(key): /nʡajʔsã/

ნჵაჲჸსაჼ (n'ayʾsã) class bd

1. outside door
   1. → door

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Kadagiʒe, Davit; Kadagiʒe, Niḳo (1984), “ნჵაჲჸსაჼ”, in Arn. Čikobava, editor, C̣ova-tušur-kartul-rusuli leksiḳoni / Цова-тушинско–грузинско–русский словарь [A Tsova-Tush–Georgian–Russian Dictionary]‎^[2], prepared for publication by Rusudan Gagua, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 485b
• Bertlani, Arsen, editor (2019), “ნჵაჲჸსაჼ”, in C̣ovatušur-kartul-rusul-inglisuri leksiḳoni [Tsovatush–Georgian–Russian–English Dictionary], volume IV, Tbilisi: Universali, page 194
• Ḳaḳašvili, Diana (2022), “ნჵაჲჸსაჼ”, in C̣ovatušur-kartuli leksiḳoni [Bats-Georgian dictionary] (Ḳavḳasiur-kartuli leksiḳonebi; II), Tbilisi, page 142b

• Dešerijev, Ju. D. (1953), B. A. Serebrennikov, editor, Бацбийский язык: Фонетика, морфология, синтаксис, лексика [The Bats language: Phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary]‎^[3] (in Russian), Leningrad: Academy Press, page 325
• Nikolaev, Sergei L.; Starostin, Sergei A. (1994), “*mɦăʡnē”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[4], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, page 813: “*nɦeʔ”
• Nikolaev, Sergei L.; Starostin, Sergei A. (1994), “*s̱ɨ̄nŏ (~-ǝ̆)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[5], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, page 963‒964: “*sān”