Proto-North Caucasian: *χ_āɫV
Meaning: sinew; thread
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Seems quite plausible phonetically and semantically (the correlation "sinew" : "thread, wire" is usual). EC > Osset. xal / xalä 'thread', Balk. xalǝ id. (see Abayev 1989, 135).
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