< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan

Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/c̣₁qar-

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

*c̣₁qar-

  1. quail

Reconstruction notes

Svan შყა̈ჟუ̂ (šq̇äžû) is assumed to have been borrowed from Mingrelian *ჭყოჯ- (*č̣q̇oǯ-), an unattested alternative form of ჭყორი (č̣q̇ori), because it's common for Zan languages to transform word-final *რ (*r) into ჯ (ǯ) whereas for Svan there are probably no other examples of such process.

Descendants
  • Old Georgian: *მწყერი (*mc̣q̇eri) (attested as მწყერ-მარჴილი (mc̣q̇er-marqili))
  • Zan:

References
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 317
  • 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 677
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 662

Further reading
  • Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (1985), “Umlauṭis ḳvali kartulši [Traces of umlaut in Georgian]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 120, issue 1, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 197―200
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