Proto-North Caucasian: *ʒHV̆ṭV
Meaning: woman, female
Notes: The root has no parallels in Dagestan languages, but has a probable match in Hurr. šid-u/ori "maid(en)" (PHU *siṭ-, see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 28). Urart. ašti 'woman; wife' was compared (see ibid., 39) with EC forms like Darg. Chir. cade 'female', but in fact may be a prefixed variant of the same HU root.
