Lezghian etymology :

Proto-Lezghian: *HVq:Vr-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 to drink 2 a gulp

Tabasaran: u=q:- (Düb.) 1

Rutul: raʁIa- 1

Tsakhur: il'-o=ʁIa- 1

Kryz: q:ɨr- 1

Budukh: s-o=ʁr- 1

Archi: huqi 2

Udi: uʁI-sun 1

Comment: Cf. also Tsakh. ḳ-o=ʁIa- 'to swallow'. The vocalism is hard to reconstruct (this may be a rare case of *-u- in a verbal stem); pharyngealization in Tsakh. and Rut. is probably secondary (due to the loss of initial laryngeal?).

North Caucasian etymology :

Proto-North Caucasian: *HVq̇_Vr

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: to drink; to pour, flow

Proto-Avaro-Andian: *HVq̇:V-

Proto-Lak: iIq̇-

Proto-Lezghian: *HVq:Vr-

Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level (although the vocalism is hard to establish). Cf. also Urart. χur- 'to drink', see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 60.

Avar-Andian etymology :

Protoform: *HVq̇:V-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: drink

Avar: heq̇:é-

Chadakolob: q̇(Vl)-

Comments: Isolated in Avar,but with some external parallels.

Lak etymology :

Lak root: iIq̇-

North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology

Meaning: to pour, flow

Lak form: iIq̇i han

Comments: The root is used only in compound verbs: iIq̇i han (intr.), iIq̇i buṭin (trans.) etc. Cf. Khosr. iq̇Ii han id.

Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *HV́q̇Vr-

Meaning: wet, to soak

North Caucasian: *HVq̇_Vr

Sino-Tibetan: *G(h)ŏr ( ~ χ-, ɣ-)

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *G(h)ŏr ( ~ χ-, ɣ-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: soak, leak

Kachin: (H) khon to pass, go or soak through.

Lushai: horʔ leak or have hole in.

Lepcha: kjór to be moist as rice (overboiled), to be wet, sloughy as mud

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