This root is not preserved in Lak, being superseded by c̣uku < PEC *ʒĭkV̆ 'kid'. It is interesting to note, however, that in the Khosr. dialect the plural form from c̣uku is c̣u-rt:u, where the root *c̣_ü̆hnV̄ may be preserved (as c̣u-); the lit. Lak has already a new form c̣uk-ri.

    There is some evidence pointing to a PEC oblique stem *c̣_ü̆hnV̄-rV- (cf. Akhv. c̣:ir(i), PL *c̣eh-rV-, perhaps also Lak. c̣u-r- in the plur. Khosr. c̣u-r-t:u).

    Abdokov (1983, 118) compares the WC root with PEC *ƛ̣_äɦɫǝ̄ 'lamb', which is impossible for phonetic reasons. The same author (1983, 124) compares the EC forms with Kab. c̣āqʷa 'antelope' (which he explains as a compound: c̣a + qʷa 'goat' + 'pig'). We were unable to find this exact form in dictionaries; only in Nogma 217 there is a word ц̂ак"h [ = /c̣āq:a/] 'a k. of antelope, джейран', which is interesting (see Turchaninov's notes ibid., as well as Abayev 1979, 58-59 on Osset. säʁ 'goat' = Old Ind. chāga-, IE *sk'ago-), but isolated and has obviously nothing to do with EC *c̣ü̆hnV̄.