< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/č̣erel-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
From *č̣er- (“to be multicolored, variegated”) + Proto-Kartvelian *-el.
Adjective
*č̣er-el-
- multicolored, variegated
Descendants
- Old Georgian: ჭრელი (č̣reli), ⇒ ჭრელ-ჭრელი (č̣rel-č̣reli), ჭრელა-ჭრულა (č̣rela-č̣rula)
- Georgian: ჭრელი (č̣reli)
- → Armenian: ճռել (čṙel), ճրել (črel) – Tbilisi
- → Svan: ჭჷრელ (č̣ərel)
- → Turkish: çiril
- Georgian: ჭრელი (č̣reli)
- Zan:
- Mingrelian: ჭკარჷ (č̣ḳarə) (← *ჭკარუ (*č̣ḳaru)), ⇒ ჭკარუ-ჭკარუ (č̣ḳaru-č̣ḳaru), ჭკარჭკუნტია (č̣ḳarč̣ḳunṭia), ჭკარჭკანტია (č̣ḳarč̣ḳanṭia)
References
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 667
- Čuxua, Merab (2018), “Axali masalebi kartuli enis isṭoriul-eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis [New Materials for the Georgian Historical-Etymological Dictionary]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XV, Tbilisi, page 110 of 79–113