Proto-North Caucasian: *Ł_ēmV
Meaning: bridge
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Some languages (some Darg. dialects, Khin.) reflect suffixed forms (with *-bV and *-dV, originally probably plural or collective).
See Trubetzkoy 1922, 242 (with some confusion of *Ł_ēmV and *ƛ̣_ǝrHV q.v.). The same confusion is present in Abdokov 1983, 128, who also tries to compare PAK *ʎamǝ́ǯǝ 'bridge'. However, the morphological structure of the Adygh form is not clear (see Shagirov 1, 250), and the correspondence EC *Ł_ : WC *ʎ is irregular, so this comparison should be rejected.
