< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/lʿizmar-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Alternative reconstructions
- *(s)i-zm-ar- (Klimov)
Etymology
From *lʿi- + Proto-Kartvelian *zm- (“to dream”) + *-ar.
Noun
*lʿi-zm-ar- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)
- dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping)
Descendants
- Old Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
- Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
- → Mingrelian: სიზმარი (sizmari), სიზიმარი (sizimari), სიზუმარი (sizumari), სიზჷმარი (sizəmari)
- Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
- Zan:
- Laz: იზმოჯე (izmoǯe), ეზმოჯე (ezmoǯe) (← *იზმორ- (*izmor-))
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998), “*(s)i-zmar-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 177
- Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000), “*lʿizmar-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 215–216
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*lʿizmar-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 175