კუ̂ილ

კუ̂ილ

Svan

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *ḳwil-.[1][2] Cognate with Mingrelian კველა (ḳvela, “stool, seat”), Laz კული (ḳuli, “chair”). According to Fähnrich, dialectal Georgian კვილო (ḳvilo, “small block of wood, tree stump”) is possibly borrowed from Svan.

According to Klimov, from a Proto-Northeast Caucasian source.[3] Compare Tsez къуӏри (q’uʿri, “bench”), Hinukh къуре (q’ure), Dargwa уркьули (urq̇uli, “board”), for which Starostin reconstructs Proto-Northeast Caucasian *q̇wǝ̆lʔă.[4]

Noun

კუ̂ილ • (ḳûil)

1. block of wood, tree stump
2. stool, seat

Descendants

• →? Georgian: კვილო (ḳvilo, “small block of wood, tree stump”)

Further reading

• Topuria, Varlam; Kaldani, Maksime (1994), “კუ̂ილ”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 772

References

1. Čuxua, Merab (2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Comparative Dictionary of Kartvelian Language-Dialects] (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 134-135
2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 257
3. Климов, Г. А. (1970), “О некоторых словарных общностях картвельских и нахско-дагестанских языков [On some common vocabulary in Kartvelian and Nakh-Daghestanian languages]”, in Этимология‎, Moscow: Nauka, page 353 of 349–355
4. Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), “*q̇wǝ̆lʔă”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers