Proto-North Caucasian: *ṭwēlʔe (~ -ʡ-)
Meaning: stick; beam, cross-beam
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular. Note also an isolated Gunz. form: ṭala 'penis' (an old loanword from Nakh, before the simplification of -lʔ-?). Abdokov (1983, 133) compares the EC forms (Darg., Lezg. and some unrelated forms) with Kab. janṭǝr 'log'. The comparison is not quite secure (the meaning of the first component is not clear, although Abdokov discovers it also in jan-c̣ 'a long pole'; also unclear is -r in Kab.).
