Proto-North Caucasian: *ć_īmV
Meaning: young goat, goat
Notes: The EC-WC comparison is quite plausible phonetically and semantically; its only drawback is the root's very sparse representation in the EC area. See Abdokov 1983, 116 (Av. : WC, with admixture of many unrelated forms). However, all other etymologies of the WC material (comparison with Cham. čala 'goat' [Rogava 1956, 75], with PEC *c̣_ü̆hnV̄ 'goat' [Balkarov 1964, 97-98], with Iranian (Avest. būza-, Pers. buz 'he-goat') [Shagirov 1, 85]) are improbable for phonetic reasons.
