Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/grʒel-

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

Etymology

Proto-Kartvelian *grʒ- +‎ *-el

Adjective

*grʒ-el-

long, high

Descendants

Old Georgian: გრძელი (grʒeli)
- Georgian: გრძელი (grʒeli)
- ⇒ Old Georgian: სიგრძჱ (sigrʒē, “length”), სიგრძოჲ (sigrʒoy)
  - Georgian: სიგრძე (sigrʒe)
Zan:
- Laz: გუნძე (gunʒe), გინძე (ginʒe)
- Mingrelian: გინძე (ginʒe), გჷნძე (gənʒe), გირძე (girʒe), გჷძე (gəʒe), გიძე (giʒe)

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 113
Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳon [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, page 232
Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, pages 102–103
Klimov, G. A. (1998), “*grʒ-, *grʒ-el-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 33
Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000), “*grʒ-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 150–151
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*grʒ-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 112–113
Kiria, Č̣abuḳi; Ezugbaia, Lali; Memišiši, Omar; Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 784