Proto-North Caucasian: *=ilq̇_wVn
Meaning: to stick into; to sew
Notes: It may be hard to separate PL *wilq̇ʷina 'knitting needle' from PC *biq̇ʷVna and PA *biḳ:ʷVn id.: the explanation lies in a merger of two phonetically close EC roots - *=ilq̇_wVn 'to sew' and *=iḳ_wVn 'to spin, to knit' q. v. The common EC derivate *wiḳ_wVnV (which should have given *wiḳʷVn(a) in PL) merged with PL *wilq̇ʷina (a derivate from the root *=ilq̇_wVn). The EC-WC comparison see in Абдоков 1983, 162.
