Proto-North Caucasian: *čHapV(-lV)
Meaning: left
Notes: A Darg-Lezg. isogloss. The word has a certain resemblance to Pers. čap 'left', and could be considered as an Iranian loanword (although the phonetic and morphologic side of this hypothesis raises several objections), if not for an obvious HU parallel: Hurr. šapχalǝ 'left' (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 54), which makes the PEC reconstruction much more reliable.
