< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan

Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/kacw-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Georgian-Zan

Noun

*kacw-

  1. sea buckthorn

Descendants
  • Georgian: ქაცვი (kacvi)
    • → Bats: ქაცო̂ (kacô)
    • → Mingrelian: ქაცუ (kacu)
  • Zan:
    • Mingrelian: ქუცი (kuci)
      • → Abkhaz: а-қәы́ц (a-k°ə́c, “brush, shrub; thorn”)
        • → Ubykh: kʷəc°ə́ (“thorn”)

References
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 213
  • Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 487
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 459

Further reading
  • Gudava, Ṭogo (1960), “O-s u-ši gadasvlis zogierti šemtxveva zanur (megrul-č̣anur) enaši [Some cases of transition of o into u in Zan (Mingrelian-Chan) language]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 25, issue 1, Tbilisi, page 119―122
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