COMMENT: A reliable common NC root; the correspondence is regular, both semantically and phonetically (the PWC form has a frequent labial prefix *p(ǝ)-). The AK-EC comparison was first put forward by Balkarov (1964, 100).
Relatively few languages have preserved the verbal root; much more extensively reflected in EC languages is the derivate *ʔālć̣VrV 'weed' (sometimes with reduction of the weak initial syllable).
