< Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian
Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/mč̣edel-
Proto-Kartvelian
Etymology
*m- + *č̣ed- + -el
Noun
*m-č̣ed-el-
- smith, blacksmith
Descendants
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: მჭედელი (mč̣edeli)
- Georgian: მჭედელი (mč̣edeli) (see there for further descendants)
- Zan:
- Mingrelian: ჭკადუ (č̣ḳadu)
- Old Georgian: მჭედელი (mč̣edeli)
- Svan: მჷშკიდ (məšḳid)
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 112
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 133, 320
- 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 682–683
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 666–667
Further reading
- Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000), “*m- -el”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 312–313
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*m- -el”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 275