Proto-West-Caucasian: *ʎ́ʷV
Meaning: to go down, lower oneself
Adyghe: ja-xǝ-
Kabardian: ja-xǝ-
Ubykh: šʷa-
Comments: PAK *ja-xǝ- (with a pronominal prefix *ja-); Ub. sǝ́-šʷa-n. The Ad. root may be alternatively compared with the Adygh noun *xǝ 'bottom' q.v. (see Yakovlev 1941, 210), but the latter seems to have a separate EC parallel. Despite Shagirov (1,178), however, Ub. χa 'bottom' can be connected neither with PAK *ja-xǝ-, nor with PAK *xǝ 'bottom'.
