Proto-North Caucasian: *ɦnǝ̄rḳ_wV̄
Meaning: urine, urinary bladder
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. The root is best preserved in the Western area; however, its remnant in PL (*nVḳʷV-) makes the common EC reconstruction very probable. The Khin. form ḳä is possibly a reduction of original *HVnḳä; a trace of nasalisation may be possibly observed in the obl. base ḳi-mi-. Some problems are raised by the cluster *-ṭq̇- in PN; perhaps *ħāṭq̇a is an originally suffixed form ( < *ħāḲ-dV with a former plural suffix).
