Proto-North Caucasian: *mV̄xwV̆ ( ~ -x_-,-f-)
Meaning: price, pay
Notes: The root behaves very similarly to PNC *maśwĔ 'price' (with the same loss of initial *mV- in a verbal root in PWC), and should be certainly reconstructed for PNC. The semantic difference between these two roots is yet to be established (in Ubykh they are opposed as 'profit, pay' : 'price'; in PAA as 'price, buy' : 'pay'). Cf. also HU: Hurr. niɣ-ari 'dowry' (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 22).
