Proto-North Caucasian: *=VʎwE(n) ( ~ -ʎ_-)
Meaning: to bind, knit, plait
Proto-West Caucasian: *ʎ́ʷǝ Notes: The root is widely represented in WC, but preserved only in Av.-And. among the EC branches. Still, the phonetic and semantic correspondence is exact, and the NC antiquity of the root is quite probable.