Lak root: x:u-wajs:a
Meaning: badger
Lak form: x:u-wajs:a
Comments: Cf. also Khosr. x:ubajs:a id. The word is folk-etymologically analysed as "nightly" (cf. x:uwaj-s:a 'nightly' from x:u 'night', x:uwa-j 'at night'). This is an irregular transformation of the compound *x:u 'night' + *bars:a 'badger' which itself is obviously a translation loan from Darg., where the word for 'badger' is dugaIq̇, dugelibug (accidentally similar to dugi 'night').
