One feels tempted to compare this root with PEC *dHogwV 'donkey, ass' (q.v.), spread in the Lak-Darg-Lezg. area (all the forms could be united under a single protoform *ṭHōgwV, assuming some metatheses and possibly interdialectal loans); however, there still remain semantic and phonetic difficulties, and the question is still open.