COMMENT: Reconstructed for the PEC level. In most languages the root is prefixless, but Av. and some Lezg. languages show traces of old class prefixation (common in PNC for names of body parts).
COMMENT:In Nakh one would rather expect *-lχ-; the *-l- reflex probably is due to a merger of three original lateral locative series (super, sub and in filled).
COMMENT: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular. See Trubetzkoy 1922, 239. Abdokov (1983, 148) adduces a Kabardian word: xʷānʎa 'liquid; boiled (e.g. egg)' which we were unable to confirm in existing sources.
COMMENT: A Nakh-Lezg. isogloss. Nevertheless, correspondences are quite satisfactory and the etymology seems probable. The Nakh form is the source of Abaz. kʷris and Osset. kʷɨrīs 'sheaf, bundle' (see Abayev 1949, 106; 1958, 611).
COMMENT: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular, except for the PL form: here also *ƛ̣V would be expected, but it had irregularly developed into *lHV > PL *l:V, which must be explained by the auxiliary status of the morpheme.
COMMENT: An Aand.-Lezg. isogloss; correspondences are regular, and the PEC antiquity of the root seems probable. Rather aberrant is the Lak. form k:iž 'tops (of plants)'; it is similar, but absolutely irregular phonetically, and one feels tempted to consider it as a loan from some Agul or Tabasaran dialect (see above) - although other cases of borrowing in that direction are unknown to us.
