Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/ḳaḳab-

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

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

*ḳaḳab-

1. partridge

Descendants

• Old Georgian: კაკაბი (ḳaḳabi)
  • Georgian: კაკაბი (ḳaḳabi)
    • → Bats: კაკაბ (ḳaḳab)
    • → Laz: კაკაბი (ǩaǩabi)
    • → Svan: კაკაბ (ḳaḳab)
• Zan:
  • Mingrelian: კოკობე (ḳoḳobe)

References

• Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 117
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 85
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 261
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 219

Further reading

• Giorgaʒe, Grigol (1999) “О характере некоторых Индоевропейско–Грузинских (Картвельских) языковых параллелей”, in Xetologiuri da kartvelologiuri ʒiebani, Tbilisi: Logosi, page 163
• Klimov, G. A. (1994) Древнейшие индоевропеизмы картвельских языков (in Russian), Moscow: Nasledie, →ISBN, pages 116-118, derives from an Indo-European antecedent, reflected in Ancient Greek κακκάβη (kakkábē), Persian کبک (kabk), Hittite 𒆕𒅗𒉺𒄷 (kakkapa)