NEW ADYGHE (CIRCASSIAN) ETYMOLOGY
The article deals with the historical and etymological analysis of a number of “unclear” lexical units of the Adyghe (Circassian) languages. A significant part of them belongs to archaisms and historicisms, but there are also a lot of words from various spheres actively used in the modern language. Most of these words are etymologized for the first time. The ones that have been considered earlier receive new versions of their origin and development in the paper. At the same time, the authors use mainly the method of internal reconstruction in the absence of old written documents and due to the limited possibility to attract the data of the related languages.