Proto-West-Caucasian: *Gʷǝ
Meaning: 1 board 2 post, pole 3 stake
Abkhaz: a-ʁʷǝ́ 1
Abaza: ʁʷǝ 1
Adyghe: pč́a-ʁʷǝ 3
Kabardian: bža-ʁʷ 3
Ubykh: ʁʷǝ 2
Comments: PAT *ɣʷǝ; PAK *p:č́:a-ʁʷǝ́ (where the first part is probably the same as PAK *p:č́:ǝ 'lance', see Bagov 1968). Abdokov (1983, 127) compares the AK and Ub. forms not with AA *ɣʷǝ, but with AA *-ʕʷanǝ in *c̣ʷǝ-ʕʷanǝ 'stake' - which, in our opinion, should be rather derived from PWC *q̇́ʷǝnV 'peg, stake' (q.v.).
