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North Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-North Caucasian: *gašē (/*šēga)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: hunger
Proto-Lak: k:aši
Proto-Dargwa: *k:aši
Proto-Lezghian: *k:aša
Proto-West Caucasian: *č́ǝga ( ~ -k:-)
Notes: Lak. k:aši may be borrowed from Darg. (or vice versa), but may be also genuine. PWC has, as in some other cases, an affricate corresponding to a PEC fricative: this must be explained by a historical dental prefix (*č́ǝga < *T-š́ǝga).

    An interesting common NC root, attested also in other geographically close families (cf. Sum. šàgar 'hunger' [cf. especially the PWC form], Hitt. kast, Afroasiatic: Sem. *gŝʕ, Cush. *gaʔaĉ-).

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Lak etymology :

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Lak root: k:aši
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: hunger
Lak form: k:aši
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Dargwa etymology :

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Proto-Dargwa: *k:aši
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: hunger
Akusha: gaši
Chiragh: k:iše
Comments: Cf. also Ak. guš- 'hungry', Sirg. k:uše 'hunger', Ur. gaši 'hunger', guš 'hungry', Kub. k:uš-dix 'hunger'. Several forms go back to the PD attributive form *k:uš- 'hungry' (with Ablaut).
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Lezghian etymology :

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Proto-Lezghian: *k:aša
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: hunger
Lezghian: k:aš
Tabasaran: gaš
Agul: gaš
Rutul: gaš
Kryz: gäš
Comment: 3d class in all class-distinguishing languages. Obl. stem *k:ašä- (cf. Lezg. k:aša-, Ag. gaši-, Rut. gaša-). Cf. also Ag. Fit. gašin-t 'greedy' ( < 'hungry').

    See Лексика 1971, 141; Талибов 1980, 286.

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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :

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Proto-West-Caucasian: *č́ǝga ( ~ -k:-)
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: to starve, be hungry
Abkhaz: a-č́ga-rá
Abaza: č́ga-ra
Comments: PAT *č́ǝga-.
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *gašē
Meaning: hunger
North Caucasian: *gašē (/*šēga)
Basque: *gośe
Comments and references : BCD 25.
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Basque etymology :

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Proto-Basque: *gośe
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: 1 hunger 2 hungry 3 ambitious
Bizkaian: gose 1, 3
Gipuzkoan: gose 1, 2
High Navarrese: gose 1, 2, 3
Low Navarrese: gose 1, 2, 3
Lapurdian: gose 1
Zuberoan: gose 1, 2
Roncalese: gose 1
Comments: Cf. PNC *gašē ~ *šēga 'hunger'. Bouda (1948) compared Bsq + Lak k:aši, etc., as two decades earlier by Trombetti and Uhlenbeck.
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