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Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/xol-
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Proto-Kartvelian
Alternative reconstructions
- *(s)a-xl- (Klimov)
Noun
*xol- (Fähnrich)
- house
Descendants
- ⇒ Svan: ნამხორ (namxor, “ruins”), ნამხუ̂ირ (namxûir)
Derived terms
- ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *lʿa-xol-
- Old Georgian: სახლი (saxli), სახელი (saxeli) (see there for further descendants)
- Zan:
- Laz: ოხორი (oxori)
- Mingrelian: ოხორი (oxori, “house”), ⇒ დოხორე (doxore, “palace”)
References
- Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳon [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, page 413
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*xol-, *lʿa-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 689–690, 720–721
Further reading
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 176, reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *(s)a-xl- without the connection to Svan and connects with Proto-Georgian-Zan *xal- : *xl- (“to be near something”) which according to Fähnrich is unrelated
- Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (1985), “Umlauṭis ḳvali kartulši [Traces of umlaut in Georgian]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 120, issue 1, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 197―200