Proto-North Caucasian: *ś_änV[k]wV
Meaning: young (of animals)
Notes: An expressive root with metatheses (PD *ḳamš:a < *š:amḳa) and irregular changes; quality of the medial velar consonant is hard to establish.
Although very distorted, the root may belong to the set of early Indo-Iranian loanwords in EC: cf. Osset. sänɨkk 'kid' < Indo-Iran. *sčanika-, cf. Bel. šanikh, šinik 'kid', Yagn. sanča etc. (see Abayev 1979, 71-72).
