Proto-North Caucasian: *śVɦVjmV
Meaning: a k. of odorous grass
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular, although it is somewhat difficult to reconstruct vocalism (because of the root's trisyllabic nature and the medial laryngeal). The cluster *-jm- is reconstructed to account for the development *s- > *sṭ- in PN and for the development *-Vjm > *-Ṽ in PC. Cf. also HU: Hurr. šim-ri 'fennel' (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 23).
