< Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian
Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/č̣am-
Proto-Kartvelian
Root
*č̣am- : *č̣m-
- to eat
Reconstruction notes
According to Klimov here also belongs Svan ლა-ლ-ე̄მ (la-l-ēm), which supposedly goes back directly to the proto-form before the expected ჭკ / შკ ← *ჭ (č̣ḳ / šḳ ← *č̣) cluster had developed, the vowel length supposedly compensating for the loss of *ჭ (*č̣). This is rejected by Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe; Čuxua adds ა-ჭკჷმ-ე (a-č̣ḳəm-e), which corresponds regularly.
Descendants
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Old Georgian: ჭამა (č̣ama), ჭამს (č̣ams)
- Georgian: ჭამა (č̣ama)
- Zan:
- ⇒ Laz: ოჭკომუ (oč̣ḳomu), ოშკომუ (ošḳomu)
- ⇒ Mingrelian: ჭკომუა (č̣ḳomua), ჭკუმუა (č̣ḳumua), ჭკუნს (č̣ḳuns)
- ⇒ Old Georgian: ჭამა (č̣ama), ჭამს (č̣ams)
- ⇒ Svan: აჭკჷმე (ač̣ḳəme)
Derived terms
- ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *lʿa-č̣m-el- (“food”)
References
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 319–320
- 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 680–681
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 664–665
- Čuxua, Merab (2018), “Axali masalebi kartuli enis isṭoriul-eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis [New Materials for the Georgian Historical-Etymological Dictionary]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XV, Tbilisi, pages 109–110