Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/ḳwes₁-

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

Root

*ḳwes₁-

1. to hammer, set, mount, emboss

Descendants

• ⇒ Old Georgian: მოკუესვაჲ (moḳuesvay, “embossing”), მოკუესილი (moḳuesili, “framed, set, embossed”)
• Zan:
  • ⇒ Mingrelian: კვაშუა (ḳvašua, “to hammer in, wedge”), კვაშილი (ḳvašili, “hammered in, wedged in”)

References

• Čuxua, Merab (2009) “Damaṭebiti masalebi saertokartveluri puʒe-enis leksiḳuri pondisatvis [The Additional Materials for the Commonkartvelian Proto-language Lexical Fund]”, in Kartvelur enata sṭrukṭuris saḳitxebi (in Georgian), number 10, Tbilisi: Universali, page 241 of 227–250

Further reading

• Čuxua, Merab (2019) Manana Mač̣avariani, Manana Buḳia, editors, Georgian–Circassian–Apkhazian Etymological Dictionary (expanded edition)‎^[1], Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, pages 234–235