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Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/čwen-
 | 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
Pronoun
*čwen-
- we
- our
Descendants
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: ჩუენ (čuen), ⇒ ჩუენი (čueni)
- Georgian: ჩვენ (čven)
- Georgian: ჩვენი (čveni)
- Zan:
- Laz: ჩქუნ (čkun), შკუ (šḳu), ⇒ ჩქუნი (čkuni)
- Mingrelian: ჩქჷ (čkə), ჩქი (čki), ⇒ ჩქჷნი (čkəni)
- Old Georgian: ჩუენ (čuen), ⇒ ჩუენი (čueni)
- ⇒ Svan: გუშგუ̂ეჲ (gušgûey, “our (inclusive)”), ნიშგუ̂ეჲ (nišgûey, “our (exclusive)”), ⇒? მიშგუ̂ი (mišgûi, “mine”)
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998), “*čwen, *čwen-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 256–257
- 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 563–564
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 541–542
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2019), “wir, unser”, in Der Erbwortschatz der Kartwelsprachen (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 223, reconstructs *čwe-
Further reading
- Melikišvili, Irine (1975), “E > i ṗrocesi zanur dialekṭebši da xmovanta šesaṭq̇visobis erti darɣveva kartvelur enebši [E > i process in Zan dialects and the disturbance of vowel correspondences in the Kartvelian languages]”, in Macne: enisa da liṭeraṭuris seria (in Georgian), issue 4, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, pages 122―128