Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/šor-

This Proto-Kartvelian entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Noun

*šor-

rhododendron, common rhododendron, pontic rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum)

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Zan:
  - Laz: მშქერი (mškeri), მშკერი (mšḳeri)
  - Mingrelian: შქერი (škeri)
  - → Georgian: შქერი (škeri), შკერი (šḳeri)
  - → Svan: შკერი (šḳeri), შგერი (šgeri)
Svan: შგო̄რი (šgōri)

References

Topuria, Varlam (1926), “Poneṭiḳuri daḳvirvebani kartvelur enebši I [Phonetic observations in Kartvelian languages I]”, in Mimomxilveli (in Georgian), Tiflis, page 203 of 198–219
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 142
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 252
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 558–559
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 533