Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology : Query result

Proto-West-Caucasian: *Pǝx́V

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 to graze (at night) 2 to spend a night 3 hut

Abkhaz: a-pχ́a-rá 2

Abaza: pχ́a-ra 2

Adyghe: pš́ǝ-ṗa 3

Kabardian: xa-pśǝ-n 1

Comments: PAT *pǝx́a-; PAK *pš́ǝ-. In PAK the verb has been preserved only (with a locative prefix) in Kab. (Abdokov gives also the meaning 'spend some time', whereas the Kab.-Russ. dictonary only gives the gloss 'to graze (at night, of horses, oxen etc.)'. Adyghe reflects only the compound *pš́ǝ-ṗq̇a 'place of temporary abode', 'hut' (borrowed in Ub. as pš́ǝṗq̇á 'lieu d'assemblée en plein air'); cf. also another derivate in Kab. pśǝ-ʡa 'hut'.

See Abdokov 1983, 128-129 with the correct AT-AK comparison (the author quotes also an Ub. verb pš́ǝ- 'to abide, stay temporarily' - which we were unable to identify and which is probably faulty: in Ub. we should regularly expect a form like pśǝ-). Because of the obvious AT cognate, Shagirov's identification of the present root with PWC *pǝʎ:ʷa 'to blow' (q.v.) should certainly be rejected.