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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *mħĭrš_wA
Meaning: string, bast
Proto-West Caucasian: *pǝša Notes: Correspondences are regular. In WC we observe a regular development *m- > *P- before the following non-nasal liquid, and a usual secondary dissimilatory delabialisation after a labial. Both semantically and phonetically the etymology seems reliable.
caucet-meaning,caucet-nakh,caucet-aand,caucet-abad,caucet-comment,
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Nakh etymology :
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Proto-Nakh: *m(ɦ)uš
Meaning: string, rope
Chechen: muš
Ingush: muš
Comments: 6th class in both languages. Obl. stem *muše- (Chech. müša-, Ing. mušo).
nakhet-prnum,nakhet-meaning,nakhet-che,nakhet-ing,nakhet-comment,
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Avar-Andian etymology :
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Protoform: *mirš:ʷi
Meaning: 1 bast 2 string, rope
Avar: muš: 1
Chamalal: nis:u 2 (Gig.)
Godoberi: murš:i 2
Comments: Av. paradigm A (erg. múš:i-c:a,pl. múš:a-l).
aandet-prnum,aandet-meaning,aandet-ava,aandet-chm,aandet-gdb,aandet-comment,
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :
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Proto-West-Caucasian: *pǝša
Meaning: 1 string, rope 2 cord
Adyghe: č̣́ā-psa 1
Kabardian: psǝ 2
Comments: PAK *psǝ (reflected only in Kab.), *ḳa-psá (a compound with *ḳa- 'end, tail'; besides the Ad. form cf. also Kab. č̣ā-psa id.). See Shagirov 2, 132. The PWC reconstruction is tentative because PAK *s can go back to several sources: *s, *š or *ś.
abadet-prnum,abadet-meaning,abadet-adg,abadet-kab,abadet-comment,
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