Proto-Lezghian: *ʎ:ɨwṭa ( ~ -ṭʷ-)
Meaning: 1 barley 2 boiled wheat 3 sty
Lezghian: giṭ 2
Rutul: xɨṭ 1
Tsakhur: xɨṭa 1
Budukh: fiṭ 3
Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Kur. jiṭ 'boiled wheat'. 3d class in Rut., Tsakh. and Bud. Obl. base *ʎ:ɨwṭä- (besides Tsakh. xɨṭa- cf. also Rut. xɨṭa-). Labialisation (either -wṭ- or -ṭʷ-) must be reconstructed to account for the labialized Bud. reflex f- (fiṭ < *xʷiṭ < *xiwṭ); however, there is no way to recopstruct *ʎ:ʷ- in this root, because of uniformly non-labialized reflexes in all other languages.
