< Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan
Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/ɣor-
Proto-Georgian-Zan
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰóryos (“pig”), supposedly derived from the root underlying Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”). Compare Ancient Greek χοῖρος (khoîros).
Noun
*ɣor-
- swine
Descendants
- Old Georgian: ღორი (ɣori)
- Georgian: ღორი (ɣori)
- Zan:
- Laz: ღეჯი (ɣeǯi)
- Mingrelian: ღეჯი (ɣeǯi)
- →⇒? Old Armenian: խոճ-կոր (xoč-kor, “piglet”)
References
- Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳon [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 96–9977
- Джаукян, Г. Б. (1967) Взаимоотношение индоевропейских, хурритско-урартских и кавказских языков [The interrelationship of Indo-European, Hurro-Urartian and Caucasian languages] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 100
- 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 774
- Климов, Г. А. (1994) Древнейшие индоевропеизмы картвельских языков [The Oldest Indo-Europeanisms in Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nasledie, →ISBN, page 150–151
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 232
- 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 515
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 491–492