Proto-West-Caucasian: *maχʷǝ
Meaning: son-in-law
Abkhaz: á-maħʷ
Abaza: mħʷǝ
Adyghe: māχʷʎa
Kabardian: māʎχa
Ubykh: mǝχǝ́
Comments: PAT *maħʷǝ; PAK *maχʷ-ʎá (a compound with *ʎ́V 'kin, relationship'); Ub. def. á-mǝχ / a-mǝ́χ. In Ubykh there occurred a usual delabialisation after a labial consonant. All attempts of the inner analysis of the WC form (Yakovlev 1948, 273, Kuipers 1960, 85, Rogava 1956, 33, 64) are groundless; see Shagirov 1, 259-260.
