Protoform: *ʔi-šomu
Meaning: 1 female mountain goat 2 goat (less than 2 years old)
Avar: sum (Ants.) 1
Andian language: išom 2
Chamalal: ĩho (U.-Gakv.) 2
Tindi: hĩhab 2
Godoberi: išamu 2
Comments: Cf. also Cham. Gig. išan 'kid (less than 1 y. old). The PA form has a laryngeal prefix (as in a number of other cases). In Tind. a secondary metathesis of nasalisation occurred (hĩhab < *iham < *ʔišomu). Andian (Old Tind. or Cham.) > Inkh. išomu, Khvarsh. išamu 'young goat'.
