Proto-North Caucasian: *bɦĕrƛ̣_V (~ w-)
Meaning: intestine (large)
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are quite regular (only the PL *wäwƛ̣: requires a special explanation: it is probably a result of assimilation < *wärƛ̣).
See Trubetzkoy 1922, 241. Abdokov (1983, 74) tries to relate here some WC forms: Ub. La 'intestine' (which belongs rather to WC *Ĺǝ 'meat, flesh') and PAK *(b)La- 'chain' (in Kab. La-rǝ-ps, Ad. bLa-rǝ-ps 'chain') - which reflects rather the PAK verbal root *bLa- 'to thread on a string, to plait'.
