Proto-West-Caucasian: *č̣ʷa
Meaning: 1 young, fresh 2 new 3 good
Abkhaz: a-č̣á 1
Abaza: č̣a 1
Adyghe: č̣́a 1,2
Kabardian: ṣ́a 1,2
Ubykh: č̣a 3
Comments: PAT *č̣a; PAK *č̣́a. Usually these AA and AK forms are compared with Ub. ć̣a 'young, fresh, new': the correspondence is, however, irregular, and there exists a self-standing PWC root *ć̣V q.v. On the other hand, Ub. č̣ regularly corresponds to AT č̣, AK č̣́, and the semantic correlation between 'new' and 'good' is fairly common.
