Proto-North Caucasian: *=HĭGĀ
Meaning: to freeze, get cold, be benumbed
Notes: PN and Khin. have preserved only nominal derivates of the root; in PL and Lak. it still functions as a verb. The vocalic reconstruction is not quite certain because of reduction in PN (in a suffixed derivate) and pharyngealization. The EC-WC comparison seems both phonetically and semantically reasonable. See Абдоков 1983, 175.
