< Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian
Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/bard-
Proto-Kartvelian
Root
*bard-
- undergrowth, brush, bushes
Descendants
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Georgian: ბარდი (bardi)
- → Mingrelian: ბარდი (bardi)
- → Abkhaz: а-бард (a-bard)
- → Mingrelian: ბარდი (bardi)
- Zan:
- Mingrelian: ბურდი (burdi)
- Georgian: ბარდი (bardi)
- Svan: ბა̈რდ (bärd, “stem, stalk of climbing plants; ivy (Hedera spp.); undergrowth, brush”)
References
- Климов, Г. А. (1988), “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. III [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. III]”, in Этимология (in Russian), issue 1985, Moscow: Nauka, page 153 of 151–165
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 8
- Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 95
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 50