Lak etymology :

Lak root: q:unt

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: mound, hillock

Lak form: q:unt

Comments: Gen. pl. q:unti-rdal.

North Caucasian etymology :

Proto-North Caucasian: *GwɨntV

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: mound, hill

Proto-Lak: q:unt

Proto-Lezghian: *q:unt(a)

Notes: A Lak-Lezg. isogloss. There exists, however, a HU parallel: Hurr. qund-arǝ 'mountain, abode of gods' (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 24), which makes the EC antiquity of the root rather probable.

Lezghian etymology :

Proto-Lezghian: *q:unt(a)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: barrow, mound

Lezghian: q:unt

Comment: Erg. q:unt-uni; cf. also Akht. q:unt id. The word is attested only in Lezg., but has a probable Lak. parallel.

Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *xGwǝntV́

Meaning: hill, mound

North Caucasian: *GwɨntV

Sino-Tibetan: *k(h)ōn ( ~ -ū-)

Yenisseian: *kǝ(ʔ)t- (~g-,-c-,-č-, -d-)

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(h)ōn ( ~ -ū-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: hill ridge

Burmese: kunh hill, saddle of a hill, backbone.

Lushai: kōn a saddle of a hill.

Lepcha: kŭŋ the ridge (of house, mountain, nose) (?)

Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *kǝt- (~g-,-c-,-č-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: tussock

Ket: kʌt-peś⁵, pl. kʌt-peśn⁵

Comments: ССЕ 238. Cf. a similarly structured Yug fʌrɨŋ⁵ fɨ:^hš́ "tussock" (where the second part probably reflects PY *pɨ̄-s- 'bent, crooked, bend'). Selk. kotpas "hill' (see Хелимский КС 241), therefore, is most probably < Ket. See Werner 1, 470 (with many doubts, but no different solution).

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