< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/buṭḳar-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
*buṭḳ(a)- (“inflorescence, leaf”) + *-ar-
Noun
*buṭḳ-ar-
- bee
Descendants
- Old Georgian: ფუტკარი (puṭḳari)
- Georgian: ფუტკარი (puṭḳari)
- → Bats: ფუტკარ (puṭḳar)
- Georgian: ფუტკარი (puṭḳari)
- Zan:
- Laz: ბუტკუჯი (buṭḳuǯi)
- ⇒ Mingrelian: ბუტკუჯიში (buṭḳuǯiši, toponym)
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 22
- 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 126
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 86–87
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi; Ezugbaia, Lali; Memišiši, Omar; Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 780