Proto-North Caucasian: *wVdVrV
Meaning: child, young one
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular, but there is not enough data to reconstruct vowels (the PN and Tsez vowels can go back to a variety of protoforms, and the Lezg. data in this case are not reliable, because in a long word like this vocalic assimilations were possible in the first syllable).
The word is probably an old (common EC) Indo-Iranian loan (IE *u_etero- 'a one-year old animal', see Starostin 1988, 113).
