Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/tow-

*tow-

1. to snow

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • ⇒ Old Georgian: თოვა (tova, “to snow”), თოვლი (tovli, “snow”)
    • Georgian: თოვა (tova), თოვლი (tovli)
      • ⇒ Georgian: მეთოვლია (metovlia, “gull (Larus spp.)”)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒ Laz: ომთუ (omtu, “to snow”), მთუფს (mtups, “snows”), მთური (mturi, “snow”)
    • ⇒ Mingrelian: თუალა (tuala, “to snow”), თუნს (tuns, “snows”), თირი (tiri, “snow”), მათირია (matiria, “gull (Larus spp.)”)
• ⇒ Svan: ლიშდუ̂ე (lišdûe, “to snow”), შდუუ̂ე (šduûe, “snows”)

• Klimov, G. A. (1998), “*tow-, *tow-l-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 73
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000), “*tow-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 238–239
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*tow-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 197–198
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi; Ezugbaia, Lali; Memišiši, Omar; Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 796