< Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian
Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ʒ₁umar-
Proto-Kartvelian
Alternative reconstructions
- *ʒ₁m-ar- (Klimov)
- *ʒ₁am-ar- (Čuxua)
Etymology
*ʒ₁um- + *-ar
Noun
*ʒ₁um-ar- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)
- vinegar
Descendants
- Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: ძმარი (ʒmari)
- Georgian: ძმარი (ʒmari)
- → Bats: ძმარ (ʒmar)
- → Mingrelian: ძიმარი (ʒimari)
- Georgian: ძმარი (ʒmari)
- Zan:
- ⇒ Laz: მჯუმორი (mǯumori, “vinegar”), ონჯუმორუ (onǯumoru, “to salt”)
- Mingrelian: ჯუმორი (ǯumori)
- Old Georgian: ძმარი (ʒmari)
- ⇒ Svan: ჯჷმარ (ǯəmar, “vinegar”), ლჷჯმარე (ləǯmare, “sulguni ← *salty”)
References
- 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 631–632
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 611–612
- Климов, Г. А. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 239, notes similarity with Northwest Caucasian and Northeast Caucasian
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 289–290
- Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, page 417–418
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi; Ezugbaia, Lali; Memišiši, Omar; Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 897