Proto-North Caucasian: *GŏrGV
Meaning: stone
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. An expressive reduplicated root. Some minor irregularities (vowel in Kar. - -i- or -e- would be expected; ʁ in Lak. instead of q:; pharyngealisation in Agul - reflecting a variant *GHŏrGV) are explained both by the root's expressiveness and by contamination with another similar PEC root, *ʁHĕwʁǝ̆ q.v..
