Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/kwrdeml-

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

Root

*kwrdeml-

anvil

Descendants

Mingrelian: ქულამური (kulamuri), ქულამორი (kulamori)
- → Svan: ქურმილ (kurmil)
Old Georgian: ქჳრდემლი (kwirdemli), გურდემლი (gurdemli)
- Middle Georgian: გრდემლი (grdemli)
  - Georgian: გრდემლი (grdemli), (dialectal) ქურთემული (kurtemuli), დგვლემი (dgvlemi)
→? Abkhaz-Abaza: *kədə (“log, stump”)
- → Abkhaz: ақды (ākdə)
- → Abaza: кды (kdə)
→ Lezgi: гирдим (girdim, “block”)
→ Archi: гелден (geldén, “log”)
→ Tabasaran: гэрдэм (gerdem, “boulder”)
→ Udi: гуьрдуьм (gürdüm, “block”)
→ Bezhta: герден (gerden, “log”)
→ Avar: герен (geren, “small log, block”)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 217
Starostin, S. A. (2005) , “*kwrdeml-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages

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