Proto-North Caucasian: *šimišV̆ (~ś,-ɨ̄-)
Meaning: fringe, plait
Notes: An Avaro-Ando-Tsezian isogloss. Correspondences are normal; PTs reveals a usual reduction of the medial syllable with a resonant in a polysyllabic structure; unfortunately, there is not enough evidence to establish whether there had been nasalization in the PTs root (regularly it would have been expected).
