Proto-North Caucasian: *ʒĭ[l]ʒ_V
Meaning: hook; buckle
Notes: The PN form can be linked with other EC and WC forms, if we assume the original meaning 'brass buckle, smth. made of brass' (with a typical semantic shift "name of a metal" > "name of smth. made from this metal"). The quality of the medial resonant is not quite clear; otherwise correspondences are regular.
