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Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/tel-
Proto-Kartvelian
Root
*tel-
- to trample, to tighten
Descendants
- Georgian-Zan:
- Zan:
- Mingrelian: თალუას (taluas, “to trample”)
- Laz: ნთალუფს (ntalups, “to press, to crush”)
- → Old Armenian: թաղ (tʿał)
- Old Georgian: თელ- (tel-)
- Georgian: თელავს (telavs, “to trample; to felt”)
- Zan:
- Svan: ლი-თელ (li-tel, “touch”), ლი-თლ-ე (li-tl-e, “to tighten, trample”)
References
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 191–192
- Klimov, G. A. (1964) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kartvelʹskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 92
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 68
- Starostin, S. A. (2005) , “*tel-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages