Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/beḳ-

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

Root

*beḳ-

to trample down

Reconstruction notes

For the development of Laz descendant, compare *ǯeḳ-.

Descendants

⇒ Georgian: ბეკნა (beḳna)
Zan:
- ⇒ Laz: ობანიკუ (obaniḳu) (← *ო-ბაკ-ინ-უ (*o-baḳ-in-u))
  - →⇒? Georgian: ბაბნიკი (babniḳi) – Guria
- ⇒ Mingrelian: ბაკუა (baḳua)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 11
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 102
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 57
Ḳelauraʒe, Levan (2014), “Damaṭebani kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis - II [Addenda to Etymological Dictionary of Kartvelian Languages - II]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XI, Tbilisi: Dedaena, page 19 of 17–37