Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/šurd-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Georgian-Zan

Alternative reconstructions

• *šurdun- (Klimov:1998)

Noun

*šurd- (Fähnrich-Sarǯvelaʒe)

1. sling (weapon)

Descendants

• ⇒ Old Georgian: შურდული (šurduli)
  • Georgian: შურდული (šurduli)
    • → Armenian: շուրդուլ (šurdul) — Tbilisi
    • → Bats: შურდღულ (šurdɣul)
    • →⇒ Bezhta: шурдамани (šurdamani)
    • →⇒ Chechen: ширдолаг (širdolag)
    • →⇒ Ingush: ширдолг (širdolg)
    • → Laz: შურდული (şurduli)
    • → Mingrelian: შურდუნი (šurduni), შურდუმი (šurdumi), შურდული (šurduli)
      • → Svan: შურდუმი (šurdumi)
    • → Udi: шурдули (šurduli)
• Zan:
  • ⇒ Mingrelian: შქურდუმი (škurdumi), შქურდონი (škurdoni)

References

• Rogava, Giorgi (1962) Kartvelur enata isṭoriuli poneṭiḳis saḳitxebi. I [Problems in the historical phonetics of the Kartvelian languages. I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademia, page 98
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 254
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 558
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 536