Proto-Lezghian: *ʔIʷins / *ʔIʷirs
Meaning: 1 moth 2 bug, bed-bug
Tabasaran: sur 1
Agul: urs (Fit.) 1
Rutul: jis 1
Tsakhur: sus 1
Archi: winisi 2
Comment: Cf. also Tab. Düb. sur, Ag. Bursh. sür (reflecting a metathesis < *ʔIʷirs, cf. the Fit. form urs). The Tsakh. form is reduplicated. We can suspect that the Shakhdagh languages (now having a loanword from Azer.: Kryz giwä, Bud. güwä) once also had a reduplicated form *sus ( < *sʷirs), that was borrowed and remains in Khin. sus "moth". 3d class in Rut., Tsakh. Oblique base *ʔIʷinse- (*ʔIʷirse-), cf. Tab. súri- (/surá-), Düb. sura-, Ag. Fit. ursu-, Bursh. süri-.
See Лексика 1971, 156.
