< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/zapxul-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
From Proto-Kartvelian *za- (“year, season”) + *px- (“for the weather to be clear”).
Noun
*za-px-ul-
- summer
Descendants
- Old Georgian: ზაფხული (zapxuli)
- Georgian: ზაფხული (zapxuli)
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 55; 209
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 166; 450
- Starostin, S. A. (2005), “*za-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages