Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ḳwet-

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

Root

*ḳwet-

to chop, cut, cut off

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- ⇒ Old Georgian: კუეთს (ḳuets, “to cut (something)”), მოკუეთა (moḳueta, “cutting off”), ნაკუეთი (naḳueti, “lot, part, husk”), საკუთარი (saḳutari, “one's own; very own (something)”), გაკუეთილი (gaḳuetili, “portion, dissection”), განსაკუეთელი (gansaḳueteli, “reward”)
- Zan:
  - ⇒ Laz: ოკვათუ (oḳvatu, “to cut; cutting”)
  - ⇒ Mingrelian: კვათუა (ḳvatua, “to cut; cutting”), ნაკვათა (naḳvata, “wounded, injured”)
⇒ Svan: ლიკუ̂თურე (liḳûture, “cut in thin pieces”), მეკუ̂ეშდ (meḳûešd, “short”)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 92
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 277–279
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 238