Long-range etymologies :

Borean (approx.) : RVCV

Meaning : behind, anus

Sino-Caucasian : *ʔrV́jcwĕ

Notes : So far known only in SC.

Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *ʔŕV́jcwĕ (~-ă)

Meaning: behind, anus, vulva

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *ʔrǝjc_wĕ (~-ă) (cf. also *ɦrĕʒ_́wǝ̆ 'tail')

Sino-Tibetan: *rj₁et(s)

Yenisseian: *ŕɔs

Basque: *e=rec

Comments and references : HGC 24, VCQ 4. Loss of expected -ʔ- in PY is not quite clear (although a misrecording is quite probable in this case). Cf. PEA *ćǝ̄̀ʔ 'tail'.

North Caucasian etymology :

Proto-North Caucasian: *ʔrǝjc_wĕ (~-ă)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: hind, bottom

Proto-Nakh: *=ist

Proto-Avaro-Andian: *ris:ʷi

Proto-Tsezian: *rɔs: (~*l-,-s)

Proto-Lezghian: *ʔajs:a (~-s-)

Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Although in PN we have a stem with changing class prefixes, it is probably secondary: a result of treating *d- in PN *dist "(lower) end" (cf. Chech., Ing. dist) as a class prefix. All other data point to a protoform with the initial cluster *ʔr-.

    Cf. also Hurr. tawš-aɣlǝ 'bottom, lower part' (with t- regularly < *r-), see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 29.

Nakh etymology :

Proto-Nakh: *=ist

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: edge, end

Chechen: =ist

Ingush: =ist

Batsbi: bist

Comments: Bacb. bist in Matsiyev's notation (Kadagidze: bisṭ). Vowel length unclear (because of the consonant cluster). One of the stems with changing class prefixes.

Avar-Andian etymology :

Protoform: *ris:ʷi

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 lower side 2 anus 3 behind,bottom 4 tail 5vagina

Avar: roc: 1,2

Chadakolob: roc 5

Andian language: rus:i 2,3

Akhvakh: ros:i 2

Chamalal: wos: 2,3

Tindi: ros:i 2

Karata: ros:i 3

Botlikh: rus:i 3

Bagvalal: rus: 4

Godoberi: rus:i 3

Comments: Av. Chad. paradigm A (rócu-l). Cf. also Cham. Gig. rus:i 'behind, bottom', Akhv. ros:o-q:e 'behind' (adv.). And. > Inkh. rus 'anus'.

Tsezian etymology :

Proto-Tsezian: *rɔs: (~*l-,-s)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: foundation

Tsezi: ros

Ginukh: ros

Comments: PTsKh *Ros.

Lezghian etymology :

Proto-Lezghian: *ʔajs:a (~-s-)

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 bottom 2 below 3 low, short

Lezghian: as-ḳan 3

Tabasaran: asi-q, asi-k: 2

Agul: ajs 1

Rutul: sa-ʔ 1

Comment: The suffixless root is preserved in Agul; all other languages have derivates with locative suffixes (Rut. sa-ʔ is a reduction < *ʔasa-ʔ "in the bottom"). In Tab. cf. also asi-na 'downwards', Düb. is-di 'below'. The attested forms do not allow to distinguish between PL *s: and *s (if Lezg. Khl. ħäze 'below' belongs here, it can indicate PL *s:).

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rj₁ēt

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: back, hind part

Tibetan: rʒ́es trace, track; hind part (of a thing); to follow.

Burmese: rać remaining behind.

Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *ŕɔs

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: vulva

Ket: ĺōś

Yug: los

Pumpokol: lat 'cunnus'

Comments: ССЕ 268. A good phonetic match is Kott. d́ōš 'luck', although the semantics is highly questionable. Ket is the source of the isolated Nenets (Purov dialect) ḷōs 'vagina' (possibly, through Selkup as an intermediary, see Хелимский КС 245). Werner 2, 15 <*ʎos / *ʎot>.

Basque etymology :

Proto-Basque: *e=rec

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 corner, edge, bank 2 side 3 fringe (of garment) 4 part(ing) of hair 5 comparison, relation

Bizkaian: ertz 1, 3, 4

Gipuzkoan: ertz 1, 3

Low Navarrese: eretz 2, 5

Lapurdian: eretz 2, 5

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