Празападнокавказский: *ḳ́ač̣ʷǝ
Значение: short
Абхазский: a-ḳ́áč̣
Адыгейский: č̣́ač̣́ǝ
Кабардинский: č̣aṣ́
Комментарии: PAK *ḳač̣́ǝ́. Identifying *ḳa as 'tail' and treating the PAK form as 'empty-tailed' (thus in Shagirov 2, 134) is obviously a folk etymology. The Abkh. word may be, but not necessarily is, an AK loanword (phonetic correspondences are quite regular here).
