Proto-Lezghian: *s:ʷɨra
Meaning: 1 half 2 part, side 3 part; mountain slope 4 rib
Lezghian: zur 1
Tabasaran: š̌ur 1
Agul: sur 1
Rutul: sur 2
Tsakhur: sura 3
Archi: bars:on 4
Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Nüt. gür, Akht. žur 'half'; for the obl. stem cf. also Tab. š̌uri-, Rut. sura-. Several languages reflect also the PL derivate *s:ʷɨra-n : cf. Tab. Kand. ž̌uran 'half', Düb. ž̌aran 'side', Ag. Bursh. zuran id. (cf. characteristic voicing of the original strong fricative in dialectal forms.) The Arch. form also reflects an -n-derivate, but is phonetically and semantically very archaic: it goes back to *wars:ʷɨ-n probably reflecting an original form *rɨws:ʷa- (< *rɨms:ʷa- = Lak. niws), while in all other languages the metathesis went in another direction (*rɨws:ʷa- > *s:ʷɨra-).
