Reconstruction:Proto-Kartvelian/ṭab-

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

*ṭba- (Klimov)

Noun

*ṭab- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

lake

Descendants

Proto-Georgian-Zan:
- Old Georgian: ტბაჲ (ṭbay)
  - Georgian: ტბა (ṭba)
  - ⇒ Georgian: ტაბაჴმელა (ṭabaqmela, toponym, literally “dry lake”)
- Zan:
  - Laz: ტობა (ṭoba)
  - Mingrelian: ტობა (ṭoba), ტომბა (ṭomba), ტონბა (ṭonba), ტობო (ṭobo)
    - → Svan: ტო̄მბ (ṭōmb)
Svan: ტუბ (ṭub), ტუ̂იბ (ṭûib)

References

Klimov, G. A. (1998), “*ṭba-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 185
Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc; Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000), “*ṭab-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 427–428
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007), “*ṭab-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 391–392