Avar-Andian etymology :

Protoform: *maq:a ( ~ -o-)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: snot

Godoberi: maq:a

Comments: Cf. also God. Zib. maq:a 'soot'. Attested only in God., but having probable external parallels.

North Caucasian etymology :

Proto-North Caucasian: *mħV̄rq_V

Meaning: dirt, secretion

Proto-Nakh: *m(ɦ)ōq

Proto-Avaro-Andian: *maq:a ( ~ -o-)

Proto-Tsezian: *muχ:-

Proto-Lak: maIχ:i

Proto-Lezghian: *mVrq:-

Proto-Khinalug: miq

Notes: An expressive, scantily represented and rather unreliable root. We think that it still has to be postulated, but must have contaminated with *mHīrq̇_wV 'dirt, rust' q.v.

Nakh etymology :

Proto-Nakh: *m(ɦ)ōq

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: rust

Chechen: mēqa

Ingush: muq

Comments: The PN paradigm should be reconstructed as *m(ɦ)ōq ( > Ing. muq), *m(ɦ)āqi- (the former obl. stem having superseded the direct one in Chech.). 4th class in both languages.

Tsezian etymology :

Proto-Tsezian: *muχ:-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: ordure of small animals

Bezhta: muχ-sa

Comments: A compound; -sa is obviously = sar "faeces". Isolated in Bezht., with a possibility of external cognates.

Lak etymology :

Lak root: maIχ:i

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: mould

Lak form: maIχ:i

Comments: Cf. Khosr. maχ:Iʷi id.

Lezghian etymology :

Proto-Lezghian: *mVrq:-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: snivel, snot

Tabasaran: māʁa

Comment: This MSU Kandik recording must be probably corrected to marʁa (there are no long vowels in Tab.). The form marʁa presupposes a PL form *mVrq:a-j.

Khinalug etymology :

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