Proto-West-Caucasian: *pǝsA
Meaning: soul, spirit
Abkhaz: a-psǝ́
Abaza: psǝ
Adyghe: psa
Kabardian: psa
Ubykh: psa
Comments: Cf. also Bz. a-psǝ́, Ub. def. a-psá. In PAK the derivate adjective *psá-wǝ 'alive, healthy' had acquired also the meaning 'whole, all' (see Шагиров 2, 14), although later these meanings became phonetically slightly differentiated - probably due to different syntactic accentuation (Ad. psaw 'alive', psāw 'whole', pstaw 'all' /with a not quite clear -t-/, Kab. psaw 'alive', psow 'whole', pso 'all').
