From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 69209
Date: 2012-04-02
> I don't know how you arrived at the "Proto-North Caucasian"See page 204, Francesco, and this:
> reconstruction "*=unddzE 'to hide, to steal, to conceal' (= stands for a
> class-prefix)". Starostin just reconstructs an isolated Proto-Lezghian
> (East Caucasian) root *pinc.w- 'feather' (based on the *actually
> attested* Agul word pinc. 'feather' -- further glossed as 'eyelash'
> without any explanation -- *only*), and doesn't even attempt to
> reconstruct a "North Caucasian" protoform. See both at
>
> http://tinyurl.com/bvsc9gv
>
> and at
>
> http://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/glossary.pdf (p. 160),