Proto-North Caucasian: *rħăƛwV̆
Meaning: milk
Notes: The correspondence between PEC *rħăƛwV and PWC *ƛǝ is quite plausible (except for the somewhat unclear loss of labialisation in PWC). Other attempts of comparison for the WC form (either with Georg. rʒe, Svan. lǝǯe 'milk' - see Charaya 1912, 41, or with Chech. šura, And. š:iwu 'milk', Cham. s:ara 'sour milk' [let us note that these forms have also nothing to do with each other] etc. - see Trubetzkoy 1930, 85; Balkarov 1964, 99) are unacceptable. Abdokov compares the WC form with PEC *nħĕƛ̣V 'milk' (q.v.), which seems less plausible than the comparison with *rħăƛwV because of the unexplained loss of glottalisation in PWC.
