Proto-West-Caucasian: *p:Vwa (~b-)
Meaning: 1 to breathe 2 breath
Kabardian: bawa-n 1
Ubykh: bǝ́wa 2
Comments: The word is lacking in Ad. (bawa- 'to kiss' is quite a different root, despite Kuipers 14), thus *b- or *p:- may be reconstructed for PAK, and, consequently, for PWC. Despite Shagirov 1,77 the Kab. word is certainly not a Turkic loan, and the Ubykh word - not a loan from Kabardian.
