Proto-North Caucasian: *ʎwɨ̆ʔwV
Meaning: millet
Notes: A significant common NC cultural term. Correspondences are quite regular (except that in Lak we have to suppose a delabialisation *ʎwɨ̆ʔwV > *ʎɨ̆wV > *xawa > šʷa [with reduction]). See Abdokov 1983, 112 (Lezg. : WC; the author, however, cites also some totally unrelated forms like Arch. iƛ, Av. roƛ: and Ud. šum).
