Proto-West-Caucasian: *č:́ʷǝ
Meaning: tree
Adyghe: čǝ-ɣǝ
Kabardian: žǝ-ɣ
Comments: PAK *č:ǝ́-ɣǝ 'tree'. Shagirov (1, 196) is certainly right in treating the component -ɣǝ as 'seed' (see *Ł́A) and establishing the original meaning of the compound as "acorn". Cf. also PAK *č:ǝ-ɣa-jǝ "oak-tree" (Ad. čǝɣāj, Kab. žǝɣej). However, the root *č:ǝ can not be related to Abkh. a-ǯ́ 'oak-tree' for phonetic reasons; the latter is rather connected with PAK *pč:́V 'plane-tree' q.v.
