Proto-North Caucasian: *babajV
Meaning: father, grandfather
Notes: A universal nursery word. However, the correspondences (both phonetic and semantic) are in order, thus reconstructable for the PNC level. Its reflexes are almost in complementary distribution with those of *babV 'mother' q.v., thus the two roots may ultimately be the same (cf. also *ʔŏbV̄(jV) 'father').
