Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/c̣id-

This Proto-Kartvelian entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Kartvelian

Noun

*c̣id(a)-

mud, filth
dirt (on body)

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Old Georgian: წიდაჲ (c̣iday, “dirt, filth”), წიდოვნებაჲ (c̣idovnebay, “menstruation”), წიდოვანი (c̣idovani, “menstruating”)
- Zan:
  - Laz: წიდა (c̣ida, “manure”)
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: წინდა (c̣inda, “dirt, filth”), გაწიმდორება (gac̣imdoreba, “getting dirty, polluting”)
⇒ Svan: წიდ (c̣id, “dirt, filth, quagmire; placenta (of cows)”), ლიწდი (lic̣di, “sullying, soiling”)

References

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 642
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 623–624
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 295–296
Ḳelauraʒe, Levan (2014), “Damaṭebani kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis - II [Addenda to Etymological Dictionary of Kartvelian Languages - II]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XI, Tbilisi: Dedaena, page 32 of 17–37