Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/dutxel-

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

Alternative reconstructions

*ttx-el- (Klimov)

Etymology

*dutx- (“to be thin”) +‎ *-el

Adjective

*dutx-el- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

thin

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: თხელი (txeli)
  - Georgian: თხელი (txeli)
- Zan:
  - Laz: თითხუ (titxu), თუთხუ (tutxu)
  - Mingrelian: თხითხუ (txitxu), თხჷთხუ (txətxu), თხჷთხჷ (txətxə), თხითხი (txitxi), თითხუ (titxu)
Svan: დჷთხელ (dətxel, “thin”), ჷთხერ (ətxer), ⇒ ლიდდთხა̈ლე (liddtxäle, “to thin out”), ლითხელე (litxele, “to make thin”)

References

Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895), “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎ (in Georgian), issue 12, Tbilisi, page 113
Klimov, G. A. (1998), “*ttx-, *ttx-el-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 70–71
Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000), “*dutx-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 178–179
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*dutx-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 138–139