Proto-North Caucasian: *bVrVdV
Meaning: stick; axe
Notes: One of the common EC words probably early borrowed from Iranian. Cf. Osset. färät 'axe', presupposing an Old Persian source *paraɵu (whence also Tokh. peret, porat and a number of Turkic and Fenno-Ugric forms) - see Abayev 1,451. It is interesting to note that the original meaning 'axe' is preserved only in Dargwa, while Av.-And.-Tsezian languages changed it to 'stick' (having preserved their own words for 'axe', see *kwɨ̄rṭā, *ɦwālźV).
