Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/keš-

This Proto-Kartvelian entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Root

*keš-

to gasp, wheeze; to yawn

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Georgian: (Imereti, Guria) ქეშელი (kešeli), ქოშინი (košini), ქშენა (kšena)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Laz: ოქაშანუ (okašanu)
⇒ Svan: ლიქშელ (likšel), ა̈დქეშალ (ädkešal)

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 490
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 461–462
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 30 of 17–37, adds Laz