< Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian
Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/mc̣₁er-
Proto-Kartvelian
Etymology
From *m- + *c̣₁er- (“to scratch”).
Noun
*m-c̣₁er-
- fly (insect)
Reconstruction notes
In Svan the expected ჭ ← *c̣₁ (č̣ ← *c̣₁) was lost which is apparently compensated by the vowel length. Other descendants are regular.
Descendants
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: მწერი (mc̣eri)
- Georgian: მწერი (mc̣eri)
- Zan:
- Laz: მჭაჯი (mč̣aǯi), მჯაჯი (mǯaǯi)
- Mingrelian: ჭანდი (č̣andi), ჭანჯი (č̣anǯi)
- → Old Armenian: ճանճ (čanč), ճանջ (čanǰ)
- Old Georgian: მწერი (mc̣eri)
- Svan: მე̄რ (mēr)
References
- Riabinin, Michel (1898), “Notes de lexicographie géorgienne. Examen du matériel emprunté”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 21
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 131
- 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, pages 663–664
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 648–649