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Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/par-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Alternative reconstructions
  • (*pr-en- : *pr-in-) (Klimov)

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, compare Proto-Kartvelian *ṗer-.

Root

*par- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

  1. to fly

Descendants
  • ⇒ Old Georgian: ფრენა (prena, “flight”), ფრთე (prte, “wing”), მფრინველი (mprinveli, “bird”)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒? Laz: ფურ-თ-ინ- (pur-t-in-)
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: ფურინუა (purinua, “flight”)

See also

References
  • Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 456–457
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 425
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 203, quotes Laz ფურ-თ-ინ- (pur-t-in-), probably meaning ოფუთხინუ (oputxinu), ოფუთხუ (oputxu)
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