Proto-North Caucasian: *ś_wimHV
Meaning: three
Notes: A rather interesting Eastern Daghestanian root: all the listed forms for phonetic reasons can not be traced back to PEC and PNC *ƛHĕ 'three'. It is probable that in PNC we must reconstruct two pairs of numerals for 'three' and 'four'; the semantic difference between them is still to be established.
In the case with *ś_wimHV it is also interesting to point out the Kartvelian word for three which is PK *sam- (see Klimov 1964, 161; despite several authors - Bork 1907, 23-24, Lafon 1952, 64, Klimov ibid. - the PK root can be hardly compared with PNC *ƛHĕ, but is a rather good match for the local EC *ś_wimHV).
