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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :

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Proto-West-Caucasian: *q́ʷa
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: pear
Abkhaz: a-ħá
Abaza: ħa
Adyghe: q:ʷǝźǝ
Kabardian: qʷǝź
Ubykh: χ́a
Comments: PAT *ħa; PAK *qʷǝ-źǝ́ (on the meaning of *źǝ see *ž́ʷǝ). Shagirov (1, 238-239) justly notices that Trubetzkoy (1930, 276) was wrong in separating the Abkh. and Ub. forms and relating them to different EC roots. The correspondence PAT *ħ : PAK *qʷ : Ub. χ́ points regularly to PWC *q́ʷ.

    See Mészáros 1934, 378; Balkarov 1969, 177; Shagirov 1, 238-239.

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