Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ɣarɣad-

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Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ɣarɣad-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *ɣrɣad- (Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe; Fähnrich)[1][2]

Etymology

Reduplication of *ɣar- : *ɣr- (“to cry, howl, sing”).

Noun

*ɣarɣad- (Klimov)[3]

1. wild goose

Descendants

• Proto-Georgian-Zan:
  • Old Georgian: ღერღედი (ɣerɣedi, “goose”)
    • Georgian: ღერღეტი (ɣerɣeṭi, “black goose”), ღერღედი (ɣerɣedi), ყერყეტი (q̇erq̇eṭi) (Javakheti)
  • Zan:
    • Laz: ღორღოჯი (ɣorɣoǯi)
    • Mingrelian: ღორღონჯი (ɣorɣonǯi)
• Svan: ღარღა̄დ (ɣarɣād)

References

1. 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 520
2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 497–498
3. Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 221

Further reading

• 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 116
• 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