< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/qew-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction
-ო (-o) in Mingrelian needs clarification. For ბ ← *უ̂ (b ← *û) in Zan languages, compare Mingrelian ტყები (ṭq̇ebi) ← Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṭq̇aw- (“hide”), Mingrelian კირიბი (ḳiribi) ← Proto-Georgian-Zan *ḳraw- (“lamb”).
Noun
*qew-
- ravine
Descendants
- Old Georgian: ჴევი (qevi), ჴევნი (qevni)
- Georgian: ხევი (xevi)
- → Svan: ჴეუ̂ (qeû)
- Zan:
- Mingrelian: ხაბო (xabo)
- → Georgian: ხაბო (xabo, “river bank”) (Imereti)
- Mingrelian: ხაბო (xabo)
References
- 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 712
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 702
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 335
Further reading
- Čuxua, Merab (2019), Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, page 631–632