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Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/kon-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
For brain ~ fat sense development compare the descendants of Proto-Kartvelian *ṭwin-.
Noun
*kon-
- fat
Descendants
- Old Georgian: ქონი (koni, “fat”)
- Georgian: ქონი (koni)
- Zan:
- Laz: ქუნი (kuni, “brain”), ქინი (kini)
- Mingrelian: ქონი (koni, “fat”)
References
- 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 63
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 218
- 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 496
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 469