Proto-North Caucasian: *ʡăɫV
Meaning: branch
Notes: An And.-Tsez. isogloss. There are no certain parallels in other languages. However, there is an interesting possibility of comparing PL *ʔala 'weed', possibly represented in Tsakh. ala id. The Tsakh. word seems to be, at first sight (together with Kryz. alaʁ and Khin. alaʁ id.) an Azerb. loan (Azerb. alaG 'weed'); however, within Turkic the root is purely Azeri (it is not attested even in Turkish), so it may itself be a Caucasian loanword.
