< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/mč̣ad-
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Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
A cultural term. Compare Proto-Northeast Caucasian *č_wăṭi.
Noun
*mč̣ad-
- bread (of millet); mč̣adi
Descendants
- Georgian: მჭადი (mč̣adi)
- Zan: *mč̣ḳud-
- Laz: მჭკუდი (mç̌ǩudi), მჭკიდი (mç̌ǩidi); ჭკიდი (ç̌ǩidi), მჭუდი (mç̌udi), მჭკიდი (mç̌ǩidi)
- Mingrelian: ჭკიდი (č̣ḳidi), ჭკჷდი (č̣ḳədi)
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 132–133
- Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 345
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 305
- Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “č_wăṭi”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
Further reading
- Gudava, Ṭogo (1960), “O-s u-ši gadasvlis zogierti šemtxveva zanur (megrul-č̣anur) enaši [Some cases of transition of o into u in Zan (Mingrelian-Chan) language]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 25, issue 1, Tbilisi, page 119―122