Proto-North Caucasian: *q̇_wǝtV
Meaning: tops of plants, bush
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences between PA, PTs and PL are regular (the semantic shift 'bush' > 'woman's hair' is observed in other cases, too). The Darg. form, however, is not quite regular (-t:- may be a result of dissimilation, but the loss of labialisation is not clear).
