< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/bal-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Noun
*bal-
- wild cherry (Prunus avium)
Reconstruction notes
The descendants match each other regularly. Ultimately borrowed from an unknown Asiatic source. Compare Persian بالو (bālū).
Descendants
- Georgian: ბალი (bali) (see there for further descendants)
- Zan: *bul- ← *bol-
- Laz: მბული (mbuli)
- Mingrelian: ბული (buli)
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 7
- Марр, Н. Я. (1915), “Яфетические названия деревьев и растений (Pluralia tantum). II [Japhetic names of trees and plants (Pluralia tantum). II]”, in Известия Российской Академии Наук. VI серия (in Russian), volume 9, issue 9, page 826, footnote 3
- 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 92
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 46