Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/ṭanṭal-

Proto-Georgian-Zan

Alternative reconstructions

• *ṭn̥ṭal-

Etymology

Has been compared to Old Armenian դանդաղիմ (dandałim).

Root

*ṭanṭal-

1. to drag along, to stagger, to roam

Descendants

• ⇒ Old Georgian: მი-ტონტ-მან-ება (mi-ṭonṭ-man-eba)
  • Georgian: ტანტალი (ṭanṭali), ტანტალებს (ṭanṭalebs)
    • → Mingrelian: ტანტალი (ṭanṭali)
    • →⇒? Svan: ლიტჷრტა̄ნ (liṭərṭān)
• Zan:
  • ⇒ Mingrelian: ტინტოლი (ṭinṭoli)

References

• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 392–393
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2019) “umherziehen, umherschweifen”, in Der Erbwortschatz der Kartwelsprachen [The inherited vocabulary of Kartvelian languages] (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 202
• Klimov, G. A. (1985) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. II [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. II]”, in Этимология‎^[1] (in Russian), number 1983, Moscow: Nauka, page 174 of 166–179
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 191