Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/berq-

This Proto-Kartvelian 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-Kartvelian

Root

*berq-

leg
step

Descendants

Georgian-Zan:
- Mingrelian: ობახე (obaxe, “passage in wattle-fence”)
- Old Georgian: ფერჴი (perqi), ფეჴი (peqi, “leg”)
  - Georgian: ფეხი (pexi, “leg”)
Svan: ბა̄ჴ (bāq), ბა̈ჴ (bäq, “step”), ბა̈̄რჴ (bǟrq), ბრა̈ჴ (bräq, “step”) (incomplete)

References

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 106
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 61
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 12
Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*berq-”, 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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