Proto-North Caucasian: *q_HwōǯĀ
Meaning: corn, wheat
Notes: Not quite clear is velar *k:ʷ in PWC (although there are several cases of such a correspondence; perhaps the explanation lies in the special development of the initial cluster); otherwise correspondences are regular, and the reconstruction seems reliable.
A variant of the same root is, perhaps, reflected in Cham. ʁoc: "rye" ( presupposing PA *ʁʷič:V); reflexes of both consonants are, however, irregular, and we should perhaps think of it as an old loanword (from some related language). The Cham. (*Tind.-Cham.) form was, in its turn, borrowed in Inkh. ʁuč 'rye'.
