Proto-North Caucasian: *ḳ_urVḳV
Meaning: a k. of fruit (apricot, damson)
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Despite some expressive transformations, correspondences are basically regular and the root seems reliable.
The root was borrowed into Kumyk from some Caucasian language: Kum. kurägä 'apricot', whence it was loaned back into some EC languages (Tsez., Gin., Bezht., Gunz. kurak, Darg. Chir. qurek:a 'apricot') and Russian (курага).
