Proto-North Caucasian: *ʎĂl(H)V
Meaning: arrow
Notes: One of the cases of PEC front fricatives corresponding to WC affricates, which is probably explained by a fusion of the root with a prefix in PWC (*ƛǝ < *T-ʎǝ). Otherwise correspondences are regular, and the comparison seems reliable. Note also the exact parallelism of the compounds: PAT *xǝ-ćǝ = PA *ʎir-c̣inHu < PNC *ʎĂl(H)V + *c̣ǟnHV.
