Lak root: naIḳu
Meaning: dragonfly
Lak form: naIḳu
Comments: Lak. naIḳu is an exact match for PA *niḳ:ʷV etc. However, the Laki for "gadfly" is aIḳ (Khosr. aIḳʷ), which seems also to be related, but with a strange loss of initial n- (some old dialectal interference?). Note also Lak. Bartkh. laIḳu "dragonfly", where initial l- is probably a reminiscence of the former lateral nature of the Inlaut affricate.