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Basque etymology :
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Proto-Basque: *-lari / *-le
Meaning: agent suffix, suffix of profession
Bizkaian: -lari / -la
Gipuzkoan: -lari / -le
High Navarrese: -lari / -le
Low Navarrese: -lari / -le
Lapurdian: -lari / -le
Zuberoan: -lari / -le
Roncalese: -lari / -le
Comments: These seem to be specialized developments of PSC *ŁĭwlV̆ ~ *ɫĭwŁV̆ 'male, man', parallel with Nakh: Chechen belχa-lō 'worker', etc. = Bsq. *egi-le 'doer, maker', etc. Bsq *-lari is usually lumped together with the suffix -ari, claimed to be from Latin -ārium, but this does not account for the /l/ in words such as guda-lari 'soldier' (gudu 'war'), margo-lari 'painter' (margo 'color, paint'), etc. Possibly both -ari and -lari are native Basque.
basqet-prnum,basqet-meaning,basqet-bzk,basqet-gip,basqet-anv,basqet-bnv,basqet-lab,basqet-zbr,basqet-rnc,basqet-comments,
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *ɫĭwŁĔ
Meaning: male (organ)
sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,sccet-buru,sccet-basq,
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *lĭwŁĔ / *ŁĭwlV̆
Meaning: man, male
Proto-West Caucasian: *Ł́A Notes: Cf. also Hurr. tur-oχχǝ 'male' (with a regular reflex t- < *l-, -r- < *-Ł-), see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 52. The meaning 'man' changed to ethnonym 'Laki' in Lak. (typologically a frequent phenomenon). This root may have something to do with the PN and PAA words for 'slave' (if we assume that a self-denomination for Eastern Daghestan dwellers *lak:(V) could be borrowed by the Nakh and through them, possibly, by Western Caucasians with the meaning 'slave'): PN *lag (Chech., Ing. laj, Bacb. lag), PAA *lǝgǝ (Abkh. a-lǝ́g, Abaz. lǝg). Since these words have a velar, they can not be connected with another EC name for 'slave', Av. laʁ etc. (see on its possible origin under *ʔV̄ƛ̣V).
Of obvious Caucasian origin is Osset. läg 'man, male' (see Abayev 1973, 20).
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Nakh etymology :
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Proto-Nakh: *-law
Meaning: a suffix denoting profession
Chechen: -lo
Ingush: -lo
Batsbi: -law
Comments: Cf. derivates like Chech. ṭema-lō 'warrior', belχa-lō 'worker' (Ing. bolχ-lo), Bacb. ḳomsomol-low 'member of Komsomol' etc. The morpheme originally meant simply "man" (cf. the analogous use of -vi in Lezg., -ž̌i in Tab. < *ćʷijo "man" etc.).
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Avar-Andian etymology :
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Protoform: *lV
Meaning: address to a man
Avar: le
Comments: Originally must have meant simply "man", confer derivates like lé-bal-ʎi "manhood, courage" (lébal is an original plural form). Preserved only in Av., but has reliable external parallels.
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Lak etymology :
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Lak root: lak:-
Meaning: Laki (ethnonym)
Lak form: lak, lak:u (adj.)
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Dargwa etymology :
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Proto-Dargwa: *gal(i)
Meaning: son, boy
Chiragh: ɣale
Comments: Cf. also Kad., Kub. gal, Sirg., Tsud. gali etc.
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Lezghian etymology :
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Proto-Lezghian: *ƛ:ilV-
Meaning: 1 male 2 man 3 men (pl.)
Tabasaran: žilir 2
Agul: ile-f 1
Archi: ƛele 3
Comment: See Trubetzkoy 1922, 242.
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Khinalug etymology :
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Khinalug root: lɨgɨld
North Caucasian etymology: 35
Meaning: man
Khinalug form: lɨgɨld
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :
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Proto-West-Caucasian: *Ł́A
Meaning: 1 male 2 testiculus
Abkhaz: á-ʁ́a 1
Abaza: -ʁ́ 1
Adyghe: ɣa 2
Kabardian: ɣa 2
Ubykh: -źa
Comments: PAT *ɣ́a / *ɣ́ǝ (the latter form is used in compounds, cf. Abkh. a-tǝ́-ʁ́, Abaz. tǝ-ʁ́ 'ram', Abkh., Abaz. abǝ-ʁ́ 'he-goat'; also in the meaning "seed, egg", e.g. Abkh. a-ḳʷṭá-ʁ́, Abaz. ḳʷṭaʁ́ '(hen's) egg'). PAK *ɣa. Ub. has also a word ɣa 'testiculus', but it is obviously an AK loanword. The genuine reflex of PWC *Ł́A is Ub. -źa in tʷá-źa 'he-goat' ( = Abkh. abǝʁ́), ṭǝ-źá 'ram' ( = Abkh. a-tǝ́ʁ́) and ba-źá 'penis'.
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lĭk
Meaning: testicle; glans penis
Tibetan: rlig testicle.
Burmese: LB *lek testicle (Mat.)
Lushai: lik the glans penis.
Comments: STEDT 333-334 *r-li-k 'testicle, egg, penis'.
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Burushaski etymology :
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Common Burushaski: *lei ( < *leli), *lal
Meaning: 1 addressing a man 2 free man, great man
Yasin: léi, le 1, lalé 2
Hunza: lḗi, léi, le 1, lal, lálum 2
Nagar: lḗi, léi, le 1
Comments: [Berger Yas. for lalé says: Kho.]
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