Proto-Lezghian: *wVnq̇
Meaning: 1 caraway 2 flour from young sprouts 3 barley
Rutul: maq̇ (Ikhr.) 1
Tsakhur: uq̇-un (Mishl.) 2
Archi: buq̇ 3
Udi: mu 3
Comment: The vocalism is hard to reconstruct (only dialectal forms in Rut. and Tsakh. are attested). In Arch. the word means 'a sp. of barley (голозерный ячмень)'; the original meaning is clearly 'grain, esp. barley grain'.
