Proto-North Caucasian: *ƛ̣_i
Meaning: below, down (an adverbial stem)
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular. In most subgroups (Av.-And., PTs, PL, Lak.) the morpheme is used as a suffix of the locative case (series Sub). Nakh languages have lost this usage, but it can be shown that they once also had it: cf. cases like PN *muʁ 'tail' - *muʁ-le 'strap under horse's tail' (lit. 'under the tail') > Bacb. mujʁlĭ, Chech., Ing. mulʁa ( = Av. maʁáƛ̣: id.).
