Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *puʔs

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: mould

Ket: huʔś

Yug: fuʔs

Comments: ССЕ 253. Werner 1, 331 *p^huʔs.

Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *mä́swV

Meaning: dirt, mould

North Caucasian: *mäs_wV

Yenisseian: *puʔs

Burushaski: *mos

North Caucasian etymology :

Proto-North Caucasian: *bħincwɨ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: dirt, mould; bog

Proto-Nakh: *b(ɦ)arš

Proto-Tsezian: *muzo B

Proto-Lezghian: *mirsʷ

Proto-Khinalug: mɨrc

Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. The medial nasal accounts for nasalization (*b- > m-) in PC, PL and Khin. After denasalization it has regularly passed into non-nasal -r-. Note, however, what has been said above about the PL form (a possible merger of two different roots there). [NB: the final version of the MSU recordings has mɨrs in Khin. If this - not the earlier mɨrc - is right, then the Khin. form should be considered as a loan from Shakhdagh.]

Nakh etymology :

Proto-Nakh: *b(ɦ)arš

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 watery clay mortar with sand 2 slush, puddle

Chechen: borša-m

Ingush: barš

Comments: Chech. has a suffixed form (with a frequent nominal suffix *-(u)m). Vowel length, unfortunately, can not be established.

Tsezian etymology :

Proto-Tsezian: *muzo B

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: bog

Tsezi: mez / mezo

Ginukh: mozo

Inkhokvari: muzo-n

Comments: PTsKh *mu_zo (~ -ü-).

Lezghian etymology :

Proto-Lezghian: *mirsʷ

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: mould

Lezghian: murs

Tabasaran: mers

Agul: murs

Kryz: mɨrs (Al.)

Budukh: mɨrs

Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Khl. mɨrs 'bloom (on a plum)'. The Tab. form (mers) is not quite regular in its vowel reflex: cf. the more regular form in Tab. Düb. miš̌. Also deviating is Ag. Bursh. mes (against the more regular Rich. murs). In addition, the final version of the MSU recordings lists Düb. miš:̌i (not miš̌, as it was recorded earlier). We may suspect that we deal here with a confusion of two originally different roots: a) *mirsʷ (with a weak *sʷ) and b) *mäs:ʷ (with a strong *s:ʷ). If this is true, the root *mäs:ʷ would be a perfect match for PTs *mis(:)- 'mould' ( > Tsez., Gin. mesla).

    Obl. base *mirsʷɨ- (cf. Lezg. mursu-, Ag. mursi-). See Хайдаков 1973, 102.

Khinalug etymology :

Burushaski etymology :

Common Burushaski: *mos

Sino-Caucasian Etymology: Sino-Caucasian Etymology

Meaning: mud flood, mud avalanche

Yasin: mos

Hunza: mos

Nagar: mos

Comments: Sh. mū́s

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