Proto-North Caucasian: *HV̆qwĂ
Meaning: pig, swine
Notes: A Nakh-WC isogloss (there are no traces of the root in the languages of Dagestan). Cf. also HU: Hurr. uɣǝ 'pig' (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 60).
See Trubetzkoy 1934, 277, Shagirov 1, 237-238, Abdokov 1983, 118 (also listing Akhv. aχʷa-ƛ:i 'wild': this is certainly wrong, because Akhv. preserves old affricates. Besides, the Akhv. word is most probably a reduction < awlaχV-ƛ:i, cf. Akhv. Tseg. alaχi-ƛ:i, Ratl. alaħi-ƛ:i and Av. awlaq: 'steppe, wild place' - obviously a Turkic loanword).
