Proto-North Caucasian: *kwīlʡɨ
Meaning: hand
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular. The word often serves as first part of compounds, see under *HɫuŁV̄, *xaɫV, *χĕɫHe. In some cases it is hard to establish the etymology of the compound's second element (because of contractions and irregular transformations): this is the case with Av. Chad. kʷe-ʁ 'mitten', PA *kʷo-χa id., PGB *ko-sa (Gunz., Bezht. kosa) id.; Lak. kaṭa (Khosr. kʷaṭa; > Arch. kʷaṭi) 'glove', Darg. Chir. kuṭa 'mitten' (probably also < Lak.). Darg. preserves the root only within the compound *kʷi-leχ:a 'bracelet' (see under *lĕχ_V).
Despite several attempts (Trubetzkoy 1930, Abdokov 1983) no secure WC parallels for this root can be observed.
