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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: WC *ṕǝ
Meaning: to be
Proto-West Caucasian: *ṕǝ caucet-meaning,caucet-abad,
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :
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Proto-West-Caucasian: *ṕǝ
Meaning: be
Abkhaz: -ṗ
Abaza: -ṗ
Ubykh: -tʷ(ǝ)-
Comments: PAT *-ṗǝ is used as a common suffixed root denoting present tense of static verbs and future tense of dynamic verbs. Glottalisation is here probably secondary - because of standard reduction of final -ǝ and neutralisation of laryngeal features in final position. Ub. -tʷ(ǝ)- is a general verbal root ('to be, to be there') used with all kinds of preverbs.
In AK we would expect *-t- to correspond to Ub. tʷ; it seems probable that the two general PWC verbal roots, *tV and *ṕǝ, merged in PAK *tǝ- (see *tV).
abadet-prnum,abadet-meaning,abadet-abk,abadet-aba,abadet-ubk,abadet-comment,
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