Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/s₁ul-

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

Noun

*s₁ul-

soul, spirit, smell

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: სული (suli, “soul, ghost; Holy Spirit; air, wind; odour, smell”)
  - Georgian: სული (suli)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Laz: შური (šuri, “soul, smell”), შურონი (šuroni, “fragnant”), ჟურშურონი (žuršuroni, “pregnant”), ოშურუ (ošuru, “to smell”)
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: შური (šuri, “soul, smell”), შურამი (šurami, “fragnant”)
⇒ Svan: ლიშუ̄ლი (lišūli, “wheezing, puffing, snorting”), ლიშუ̂რიე̄ლ (lišûriēl, “sighing, groaning, moaning”)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 182
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 423–424
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 386–387