Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/c̣₁eb-

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

*c̣₁eb-

to glue

Descendants

⇒ Old Georgian: დაწებვა (dac̣ebva), წებავს (c̣ebavs)
Zan:
- ⇒ Laz: ოჭაბუ (oč̣abu)
- ⇒ Mingrelian: ჭაბუა (č̣abua)

Derived terms

⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *c̣₁eb-o- (“glue”)
- Old Georgian: წებო (c̣ebo)
  - Georgian: წებო (c̣ebo)
  - → Old Armenian: ծեփ (cepʿ)
- Zan:
  - Laz: ჭაბუ (č̣abu, “glue; European mistletoe (Viscum album)”)
  - Mingrelian: ჭაბუ (č̣abu)
⇒? Proto-Georgian-Zan: *c̣₁eb-ar- (“a kind of grass”)
- Georgian: წებარი (c̣ebari, “rough corn bedstraw (Galium tricornutum')”) – Guria
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Laz: ჭაფურია (č̣apuria, “sugar-sweet”)
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: ჭაფურია (č̣apuria, “a kind of sweet mountain grass; glutinous, sticky from sweetness; sugar-sweet; sugar”)
    - → Svan: ჭაფუ̈რ (č̣apür, “goatsbeard (Tragopogon); the best kind of mountain grass”), ჭაფო̈რ (č̣apör), ჭაფორ (č̣apor), ⇒ ჭაფხუ̂ირ (č̣apxûir)

References

Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895), “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎ (in Georgian), issue 12, Tbilisi, page 110
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 308, considered the stem to be deverbal
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 662
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 646–647