Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/c̣₁ebo-

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

From *c̣₁eb- (“to glue”) +‎ *-o.

Noun

*c̣₁eb-o-

1. glue

Descendants

• Old Georgian: წებო (c̣ebo)
  • Georgian: წებო (c̣ebo)
  • → Old Armenian: ծեփ (cepʻ)
• Zan:
  • Laz: ჭაბუ (ç̌abu, “glue; European mistletoe (Viscum album)”)
  • Mingrelian: ჭაბუ (č̣abu)

References

• Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895) “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎^[1] (in Georgian), number 12, Tbilisi, page 110
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 308
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 662
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 646–647