Proto-Lezghian: *ʎ:ɨr
Meaning: 1 woman 2 female 3 *wife
Lezghian: ir 3
Agul: xir 1
Tsakhur: xɨwɨl'na 2
Comment: The Lezg. word is preserved only in compound kinship terms: iran-buba 'father-in-law' (*"wife's father"), iran-dide 'mother-in-law' (*"wife's mother"), iran-stχa 'brother-in-law' (*"wife's brother"), iran-waχ 'sister-in-law' (*"wife's sister"), with dialectal (Yark.) variants jaran-. The oblique base can be, therefore, reconstructed as *ʎ:ɨra- or *ʎ:ɨrä-. (One should note that the Ag. -r- here is present in all dialects, cf. Fit., Burk. xir, and thus can not go back to *-n:-; it also corresponds quite regularly to Tsakh. -w-. Thus this root must be kept apart from PL *ʎ:ɨn:- q.v.).
