кӏялагьи

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• кӏяла гьи (kʼaˤla hi),^[1] кӏаьла гьий (kʼäla hiy)^[2]
• кӏялахӏи (kʼaˤlaħi)^[3][4][5]
• чӏялагьи (čʼaˤlahi) — dialectal, Vikhli

From кӏяла (kʼaˤla, “white”) +‎ гьи (hi, “birch”).^[6][1][7][8] The latter survives only in dialects^[7] and "goes back regularly to *mihi (with a regular reduction of initial *m- + narrow vowel)", ultimately from Proto-Northeast Caucasian *mĭhV (“a kind of foliage tree, perhaps alder”).^[8]

On the other hand, Kibrik / Kodzasov recording the word as ḳalla-hi in the Khosrekh dialect explain it as ‘white bundle’,^[9] apparently identifying the second part with homonymous гьи (hi, “bundle of brushwood”),^[10] but this is typologically unlikely, unless the latter developed from an earlier sense ‘wood’; in this respect compare Kabardian пхъэхуей (pꭓɛxʷujej, “birch”, literally “wood-white”). Nikolayev / Starostin offer a native etymology for гьи (hi, “bundle of brushwood”), ultimately from (proposed) Proto-North Caucasian *mŏχ_V.^[11]

Note also Lak кӏялаттарлил (kʼaˤlat:arlil, “fir”),^[12] another tree name with кӏяла (kʼaˤla, “white”).

See also Old Armenian կաղամախի (kałamaxi).

• IPA^(key): /kʼaˤlahi/

кӏялагьи • (kʼaˤlahi)

1. birch^{[13][4][3][5]}

   Synonyms: мархъ (marq), махъ (maq), кӏялахӏилул мурхь (kʼaˤlaħilul murx̂), хӏаби (ħabi)

2. aspen;^[3] poplar^[14]

• The meaning ‘birch’ is found universally in the standard materials of the language, while ‘aspen’ and ‘poplar’ are found only in unreliable X. Xalilov and Erckert. Therefore they may be spurious.
• The spelling кӏялахӏи (kʼaˤlaħi) is widely attested in the materials, but ignored in the etymological discussion of Nikolayev / Starostin and Xajdakov.