Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/šew-

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

Etymology

The similarity with Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to beget”) is probably accidental.

Root

*šew- ~ *šw-

to give birth

Descendants

Georgian-Zan:
- Mingrelian: სქუალა (skuala, “to lay eggs”)
- Laz: სქუ- (sku-, “to lay eggs”)
- Old Georgian: შვა (šva), შობა (šoba, “birth”)
  - Georgian: შვა (šva), შობა (šoba, “birth”), ნაშობი (našobi)
- ⇒ Georgian-Zan: *šw-il- (“born, child”) (see there for further descendants)
⇒ Kartvelian: *m-šw-e- (“child”) (see there for further descendants)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 248
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 525
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 548
Starostin, S. A. (2005) , “*šew- / šw-”, in Kartvelian etymological database compiled on the basis of G. Klimov's and Fähnrich-Sarjveladze's etymological dictionaries of Kartvelian languages