Comment: Obl. base *colä- ( ~ -l:-), cf. Tab. Kand. cli-, Düb. cali-, Ag. Bursh., Fit., Burk. cali-, Lezg. cla- (reduction in Tab. and Lezg. points to Ablaut *a/*o in PL: cla- < *cɨla- < *colä-). In Lezg. cf. also a derivate: Khl. celem 'stone for fastening roof edges'.
Comment: Isolated within Lezgian. (cf., perhaps, Ud. Nidzh. c:ail 'pen' - although there exist phonetic difficulties with this comparison). Phonetically the word corresponds well to the PEC root meaning "fist" ("bird's extremity"?).
Comment: Cf. also Rut. Khniukh c:irʒ-am < *ʒirc:-. The quality of the medial liquid is not quite clear. The irregularity of the Ag. form is explained by a contamination with zaz 'thorn, prick' (see PL *c:ac:a). Note the parallelism of Tab. ʒic:i-bul = Darg. *c:anc:i-p:ul.
Comment: 3d class in Rut. and Kryz. Cf. also Lezg. erg. c:ek:ʷre-, Khl. c:ʷez, pl. c:ʷec:ʷ-er (all forms regularly < *c:ʷic: < *c:iwc: < *c:imc:), Ag. Bursh. zewz, Fit. zibz, Burk. ziwz.
One of several expressive reduplicated (and also close phonetically/ semantically) roots (cf. *c̣imc̣:,*mizmiz), which all tend to contaminate with each other. The Ud. form iz-ak: may go back to a variant *c̣imc: with expressive glottalisation.
Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Khl. c:ʷar, Tsakh. Gelm. zojä (the Tsakh. Tsakh. and Mik. form zej is a later contraction). Obl. stem *c:ʷerä-, cf. Gelm. zojä, Tab. ǯ̌ura-, Ag. zura-/zuri-, Rut. zurú-). 4th class in all class-distinguishing languages. Arch. co=ḳa- (dur. co=ḳu-r) 'to urinate' is an old compound *c:ʷera + *ʔeḳʷɨ- ('*to put urine') > *c:ʷerḳʷɨ- > co=ḳa- (with regular loss of medial -r-).
Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Khl. c:ilaz, Tab. Düb. ʒilirʒi, Ag. Bursh. zulerz. Tsakh. and Ud. reflect a form with a plural suffix *-Vm. Cf. Талибов 1980, 293.
Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Yark. gül, Akht. žul, Khl. zul ( < Proto-Lezg. *zʷɨl). The Ud. form raises some doubts (both semantically and phonetically). The word belongs to the 4th class in all class-distinguishing languages. The Archi form is a historical locative (cf. the pure root in Arch. sot 'in autumn'). Voicing in Lezg. was probably caused by an early contraction (*cowɨl: > *cʷɨl), with following spirantization (*cʷɨl > *s:ʷɨl, regularly > *zʷɨl).
