Proto-Lezghian: *ʔʷä(r)čʷ
Meaning: skin (of cattle)
Kryz: ʕič
Budukh: ʕič
Comment: Bud. ʕič is the MSU recording (Meilanova writes ħič which is probably wrong). A Shakhdagh isogloss (but with good external correspondences). The PL paradigm may be reconstructed as *ʔʷä(r)čʷ, *ʔʷi(r)čʷV-. The oblique base with -i- became dominating both in Kryz. and Bud., but the former direct base is preserved in Kryz. as a separate word ʕuč meaning 'colour' (PL *ʔʷä(r)čʷ obviously had meant both 'skin' and 'surface, colour' - as is clear from the external evidence).
