Proto-North Caucasian: *č_VčV
Meaning: red
Notes: An And.-Lezg. isogloss. Not certain because of poor attestation in Lezghian. It is possible that this is the same root as PNC *čVrčV (/ *č̣Vrč̣V) 'lizard, snake, worm' q.v., but with expressive phonetic transformations (the semantic derivation "worm" <> "red" is rather usual typologically).
