Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/bandɣ-

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

*bandɣ-

to twist, tie together

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Georgian: ბანდღი (bandɣi, “spiderweb”), ბანდღვა (bandɣva, “web spinning”) (Guria, Imereti), ფანთხი (pantxi, “spiderweb”) (Racha)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: ბონდღი (bondɣi, “spiderweb”), ბონდღუა (bondɣua, “web spinning, sew basting”)
>? Svan: ფა̈̄ნთხ (pǟntx, “spiderweb”) (or borrowed from Racha Georgian)

References

Žɣenṭi, Sergi (1940), “Zanizmebi gurul zmnebši [Zanisms in Gurian verbs]”, in Enis, isṭoriisa da maṭerialuri ḳulṭuris insṭiṭuṭis aḳademiḳos niḳo maris saxelobis moambe (in Georgian), volume V–VI, Tbilisi, page 225 of 223–232
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 8
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, pages 93–94
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 47
Čuxua, Merab (2007) Iberiul-ičkeriul enata šedarebiti gramaṭiḳa [Ibero-Ichkerian Comparative Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, pages 276–277, adds Svan