Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :

Proto-West-Caucasian: *ǯ́ǝ (/*č́ǝ)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: salt

Abkhaz: a-ǯ́ǝ́ḳa

Abaza: ǯ́ḳa

Adyghe: š́ǝʁw

Kabardian: šǝʁw

Ubykh: ǯ́ǝ

Comments: PAT *ǯ́ǝ-ḳa (with a not quite clear second component: is it the singulative marker *-ḳǝ - *ǯ́ǝ-ḳa < *ǯ́ǝ-ḳǝ 'a grain of salt' ?). PAK *č́ǝ-ʁʷǝ́ (Shagirov 2, 142 must be right in equating the second component with *ʁʷǝ- 'dry, get dry'). It is not quite clear why the affricate in PAK had become unvoiced (perhaps a secondary dissimilation).

North Caucasian etymology :

Proto-North Caucasian: WC *ǯ́ǝ (/*č́ǝ)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: salt

Proto-West Caucasian: *ǯ́ǝ (/*č́ǝ)

Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *čä́HV

Meaning: salt

North Caucasian: WC *ǯ́ǝ (/*č́ǝ)

Sino-Tibetan: PTB *(m)či 'salt'

Yenisseian: *čǝʔ

Burushaski: *ṣáo

Basque: *i=ća-śo

Comments and references : HGC 31, DCE 20.

Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *čǝʔ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: salt

Ket: tʌʔ 'salt'; tʌɣet⁵ "to salt"

Yug: čʌʔ 'salt'; čʌgit⁵ "to salt"

Kottish: ši-nčēt, pl. -čētaŋ "salt"; Ass. či-nǯet (М., Кл.), tinǯet (Сл., Срсл.), šinčet (Кл.) "salt"

Comments: ССЕ 216. The morphological structure of the Kott. form is unclear (a compound with some obscure second component). Pump. če (Срсл., Кл.) is most likely a Yug form. Werner 2, 301 *t'ǝʔ < < *t'ǝgǝ>.

Burushaski etymology :

Common Burushaski: *ṣáo

Sino-Caucasian Etymology: Sino-Caucasian Etymology

Meaning: oversalted

Hunza: ṣáo

Nagar: ṣáo

Basque etymology :

Proto-Basque: *i=ća-śo

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: sea

Bizkaian: itxaso

Gipuzkoan: itxaso

High Navarrese: itsaso

Low Navarrese: itsaso

Lapurdian: itsaso

Zuberoan: itxáso

Roncalese: itxaso

Comments: Analyzed here as PSC *čä́HV ‘salt’ with a fossilized class prefix *i= (mass/uncountable nouns) and suffix *-śo, found also in (L-arc) ibaso ‘river’ (see *ɦibai). Azkue cites *-śo only as the kinship suffix *-śo (q.v.). It is not clear whether *-śo in itsaso and ibaso is identical with it (‘child of salt’ = ‘sea’?) or the diminutive -txo (*-čo), or neither.

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