Proto-West-Caucasian: *ʁ́IʷV
Meaning: 1 to beat 2 to beat up, whip
Abkhaz: a-ʕʷ-ra 2
Abaza: ʕʷ-ra 2
Adyghe: wa-n 1
Kabardian: wa-n 1
Comments: PAT *ʕʷǝ; PAK *wa. The AK root is compared by Dumézil (1971,158-159) with Ub. ja-, but the correspondence AK *w : Ub. j is irregular (whereas PAT *ʕʷ : PAK *w is normal and points to PWC *ʁ́Iʷ).
