Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ip-

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

Reconstruction

According to Fähnrich, the root could have originally had the form *Hip-, but the laryngal was lost early on in Proto-Kartvelian.

For the suffix of Proto-Georgian-Zan, compare Proto-Georgian-Zan *lap-an- (“wingnut”).

Noun

*ip-

ash tree

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan: *ip-an-
- Georgian: იფანი (ipani)
- Mingrelian: იფონი (iponi)
Svan: იფ (ip)

References

Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 215–216