Proto-North Caucasian: *ǯ_ĭḳwĂ / *ḳ_ĭǯwĂ
Meaning: short
Notes: An expressive root with two stops; in such cases metatheses and assimilations are common in NC languages (although this makes the reconstruction less secure). Cf. also Hurr. zugǝ 'small, short' (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 41).