Comment: Cf. also Tab. Düb. c̣uḳu, Ag. Fit. c̣iḳʷ id. 3d class in Tsakh., but 4th class in Rut. Obl. base *c̣iḳʷɨ-, cf. Rut. c̣iḳu-, Tsakh. c̣iḳu-.
Comment: 4th class in Kryz. and Rut. The Ag. word is from the Bursh. dialect (there also exists a variant c̣irc̣in ali there). Cf. also Kryz. Al. c̣ɨnc̣al 'grasshopper' (in Kryz. proper the word c̣ɨlc̣äng means both 'grasshopper' and 'butterfly'). It is not clear, how to relate here Bud. c̣ig 'grasshopper'. An expressive reduplicated root with some irregular changes.
Comment: Isolated in Tab., but with rather probable external parallels. [Words for 'eyelash' in other Lezgian languages may go back to the same source, but are completely distorted for expressive reasons: Lezg. Khl. č̣eṗč̣eṗaj, Tab. Khiv. mic̣mic̣, Ag. bic̣bic̣, Bursh. pinc̣, Fit. c̣iṗc̣iṗ, Kryz. c̣äṗ / c̣äp.]
Comment: Several forms reflect PL *c̣imc̣- with both weak *c̣-s (lit. Tab., Rut., Arch.). This must be a result of later assimilation < *c̣imc̣:, reflected in Tsakh. (cf. gen. c̣it:e-n), and also Tab. Düb. c̣imic:i 'ant'. Ud. c:ec: reflects a form with both strong *c̣:-s. Variations of this kind are common in expressive roots with several stops.
Comment: Cf. Lezg. erg. c̣irʁ-ini, Tab. Düb. c̣irʁi 'caterpillar'. The semantic development in Lezg. is easily explainable; there exists, however, also Lezg. c̣arnaχ 'caterpillar' ( < *c̣irχ:-an with a suffix). The words c̣irʁ and c̣arnaχ obviously reflect dialectal mixture, which is rather common for the Lezghi language.
Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Khl. t:an, Tab. Düb. ʒaw, Ag. Bursh. t:aʡ, Fit. t:eʔ, Burk. t:äʡ, Ud. Nidzh čIajiI. 4th class in Rut. and Kryz. In Lezg. and Ud. a suffix -n is present.
Comment: In Rut. and Tsakh. the root has merged phonetically with PL *t:an 'cheek' (q.v.) and is used now only in compounds (Rut. uxnid dan, Tsakh. wuxnen dan "belly's navel"). 3d class in Rut. and Tsakh., 4th class in Arch.
Comment: The Lezg. and Tab. forms point to *c̣: in PL (conf. the correspondence Lezg. lit. c̣ak-ul : Khl. ckʷal without glottalisation, and the Tab. Kand. form c:ikʷ). Archi also has c̣: (cf. the erg. ḳenc̣:i, pl. ḳenc̣:-um) which is a strong point in favour of the comparison (inspite of the rather frequent metathesis). The Inlaut nasal must have been labial (to account for its loss in Tab. and lesg. - the dental would have been preserved - and the compensating labialisation of the velar).
Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Khl. t:ʷar, Tab. Düb. ʒur. Oblique base *c̣:ʷerɨ-, cf. Tab. Düb. ʒuri-, Ag. t:uri-, Tsakh. dojɨ-. 4th class in all class distinguishing languages.
Comment: Cf. also Lezg. Khl. cc̣ɨl, Akht. c̣ɨc̣ɨl, Tab. lit. curc̣ul, Düb. c̣urc̣ul, Tsakh. Gelm. sirac̣a, Tsakh. śurc̣ima 'marten'. In Rut. and Tsakh. there occurred a dissimilatory spirantisation c̣- > s-. 3d class in Rut., 4th class in Tsakh.
Comment: 4th class in Arch. Archi has an irregular reflex -ħ- (we should expect -χ:-, corresponding to Tab. -ʁ-, Ag. -χ-). It is, however, hard to separate the Arch. form from the rest.
Meaning:1 vertical lock; bracelet 2 woman's adorned belt
Tabasaran:c̣ur 1
Tsakhur:c̣ura 2
Comment: The original meaning is probably "wedge serving as a lock" (with a secondary development > "bracelet, adorned belt"). 3d class in Tsakh. The Tab. Kand. dialect has actually two words: c̣ur 'vertical door-lock; bracelet; loop of the lock' and ruc̣ 'lock with a hook'. Since there are no reasons to suppose two originally different roots, one of these two words is obviously a result of interdialectal borrowing.
