< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/wenaq-
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Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
Borrowed from an unknown Proto-Indo-European source having derived a *weynag- from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō (“wine”).
Noun
*wenaq-
- vine
Descendants
- Old Georgian: ვენაჴი (venaqi, “vine; vineyard”)
- Georgian: ვენახი (venaxi, “vineyard”)
- → Mingrelian: ვერნახი (vernaxi)
- → Bezhta: венахи (venaxi), венахъи (venaqi)
- → Svan: უ̂ენაჴ (ûenaq)
- Georgian: ვენახი (venaxi, “vineyard”)
- Zan:
- Laz: ბინეხი (binexi)
- Mingrelian: ბინეხი (binexi)
Further reading
- Melikišvili, Irine (1975), “E > i ṗrocesi zanur dialekṭebši da xmovanta šesaṭq̇visobis erti darɣveva kartvelur enebši [E > i process in Zan dialects and the disturbance of vowel correspondences in the Kartvelian languages]”, in Macne: enisa da liṭeraṭuris seria (in Georgian), issue 4, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 122―128
References
- Gamkrelidze, Th. V.; Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 559, 560 and 778
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 51
- 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 198
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 159