< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/sel-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Noun
*sel-
- flax
- linen
Descendants
- Old Georgian: სელი (seli)
- Georgian: სელი (seli)
- Zan:
- ⇒ Laz: სულერი (suleri, “fibre”), ოსულუ (osulu, “to chip hemp (for strings)”)
- Mingrelian: სუ (su, “flax, linen”), ⇒ სულერი (suleri, toponym)
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 163
- 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, pages 397–398
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 361
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi; Ezugbaia, Lali; Memišiši, Omar; Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 835