< Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian
Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/dud-
Proto-Kartvelian
Noun
*dud-
- tip
Descendants
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Georgian: დუდი (dudi, “comb, crest of birds, head apex”) (Upper Adjara, Guria, Fereydan)
- Zan:
- Laz: დუდი (dudi, “head, tip, occiput”)
- Mingrelian: დუდი (dudi, “head”)
- ⇒ Svan: დუდუ̄ლ (dudūl, “nipple”)
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 42–43
- 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 177
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 137