COMMENT: face="Times New Roman Star" Cf. also Hurr. es?s?@ 'horse', see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 34. The first (weak) syllable with the initial laryngeal was dropped in Av., Lak. and Khin. (and, of course, in PWC where it is the normal reflex), but is preserved in PD and PL. Medial -r- in PD does not represent the original *-n- (which was probably dropped); it is rather a trace of an oblique stem *?urc?i < *?uc?-ri-.
One of the most secure common NC roots. See Чарая 1912, 48-49; Trubetzkoy 1930, 277; Балкаров 1964, 97; Шагиров 1977, 2, 141, Abdokov 1983, 124. Charaya notes also Kartvelian parallels: Georg. ac?u,ac?i 'interjection (addressing a horse)', ac?ua '(child.) horse' - most probably NC loanwords (cf. analogous loans of *j@:mco: 'ox'). Abdokov (loc. cit.) suggests also an etymological connection of the root with *=a>c?_wV 'to bring, carry' (q.v.), but there are phonetic problems with this solution.
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PROTO: face="Times New Roman Star"*gwa">lV (? -l/-)
COMMENT: face="Times New Roman Star" A Nakh-Tsez isogloss; borrowing is excluded (for phonetic reasons), thus the PEC reconstruction is probable. We must note also the existence in PN of another similar root: Chech., Ing. gowr 'horse'. This could be a loan from PTs *gurV, and thus an etymologic doublet with PN *gile.
COMMENT: face="Times New Roman Star" The etymology seems satisfactory both phonetically and semantically. The root must have denoted a good horse, mare ('thoroughbred' in WC).
