Comments: The word q:uIrmaw in literary Lak. is used only in a euphemistic sense as "dirty creature, slut" (colloq.), although it is obviously the same word as Khosr. q:urmaw 'tom-cat'.
Comments: q:ar is orthographic (Khaidakov writes: q:ʷar). Cf. Khosr. q:ʷal 'udder' indicating that -r in literary Lak. is secondary (either under influence of words like quru 'brisket', qara-lu 'on the shoulder' or under Avar influence).
Comments: Lak. qun-ma- 'big' is very close to quna- 'big, grown up', but historically this is a secondary rapprochement of two roots (see PEC *-ŏnqV(lV) 'old').
Comments: The old meaning 'breast, chest' is preserved in the compound qara-žip 'breast pocket'. qara- is probably the old obl. stem, preserved also in some adverbs: qara-lu 'under one's arm' (cf. Khosr. qara-lalu 'armpit'), qara-j 'on the shoulder'.
Comments: Cf. Khosr. qʷa id. The Lak. name for 'wedding' is probably derived from the same root (as 'oath-taking'): cf. Lak. qaṭi, Khosr. qʷaṭi 'wedding' (for the dental suffix cf. perhaps forms like Av. hé-di-ze,hédi, Arch. χʷe-t:a-s,χʷet:i 'oath' - although the glottalisation of -ṭ- in Lak. is a problem).
