MEANING:1 foam, froth 2 (coarse) beeswax (residue in hive)
BZK:(Araba) apar 2
GIP:apar 1
BZT:apar 1
COMMENTS:Attested only in non-aspirating dialects, so we do not know whether the Proto-Bsq word was *Hapar̄ or *apar̄. If the former, cf. PY *χɔpVr 'foam' (Kott hāpar, etc.).
COMMENTS:Michelena (1961) identifies this word with the Aquitanian name Harsus. The word for 'badger' is a compound of *har̄c + *kone (+ -ar̄ in some dialects). For the second component see *-kone.
COMMENTS:Cf. ZBR haro-hún 'good weather', haro-gaitz 'bad weather'; used in names of months, e.g. LAB ost-aro 'May (leaf season)', ere-aro 'June (sowing season)', etc. Cf. PEC *h[ă]ɫʔa 'steam': the semantic chain ‘steam, breath, air ~ wind, weather’ is common.
COMMENTS:RNC arakaldi is glossed as 'tanda de palos / volée de coups de bāton', implying underlying *(H)aro 'stick, pole': for formation cf. besa-ka (BNV) 'rama(s) de un árbol' < *beśo 'arm'.
COMMENTS:An eastern word: in the west (EB) biluzi 'naked', murritz or soil for 'bare' are used. Cf. PNC *ɦǝ̄ć̣Ĕ 'hollow, empty'; and Bsq *huć and *ɦućal - the words may be partially blended.
COMMENTS:In BZK the common word for 'child' is instead sein (see *śa- / *śe- / *-śo [kin element]), or ume (for 'young animal' as well: see *hume). Bsq *hau-r̄ is parallel in form with Chechen-Ingush χowχa-r 'lamb', i.e. both have a fossilized plural *-r suffix, common in Bsq and EC languages.
COMMENTS:Most etymologists connect this word with *hauć ‘ashes, powder’ (q.v.), but this association is secondary, and the western form ausi < *hauśi is probably original.
COMMENTS:This word has other secondary meanings: 'eave (of roof)', edge (of table)', 'brim (of hat)', etc. Cf. *hega- 'to fly', which may have contaminated this word (i.e., original *e=gal, changed to *hegal). The magal forms are either blended with *maga-l 'lap, flank' (q.v.), or a prefixed formation with the fossilized prefix *ma=.
MEANING:1 crest, ridge 2 small plateau overhanging a cliff 3 border, edge, corner
BZK:egi 1
GIP:egi 1
ANV:egi 1
BNV:hegi 1, 2
LAB:hegi 1, 2
ZBR:hegi 1, 3
RNC:egi 1
COMMENTS:This word is thought to be the source of the common suffix -egi ~ -tegi ~ -degi ‘place, house of’, as in (c) jaur-egi ‘palace’ (‘lord’s place’), abel-tegi ‘stable’, ardan-degi ‘tavern, wine shop’, and many others.