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Etymology
The origin is. Perhaps from and cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Others connect this verb to 🇨🇬;  cognate with 🇨🇬, ; rejected by Diakonoff on phonological grounds, but Nielsen adduced the ł-conditioned  →  transformation argued for in Martirosyan's etymology of, , and  in favour of a denominal origin of the verb from  ← , ultimately from. Others connect Dagestani terms like 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; rejected by Nielsen on vocalic grounds but with no detail given while citing an example with the Avar-Andic -u-, yet these and Dargwa -a- contrast with the -i- vocalism of the terms found in Tsezic and Lak.

Verb

 * 1) to dig, to hollow, to excavate, to delve; to sap, to mine, to sink
 * 2) to engrave
 * 1) to engrave
 * 1) to engrave