Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/car-

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

*car- : *cr-

1. to sift

Descendants

• ⇒ Old Georgian: აღცრაჲ (aɣcray), გაცრაჲ (gacray)
• Zan:
  • Laz: ო-ნცორ-უ,ო-ნცი(რ)-უ (o-nʒor-u,o-nʒi(r)-u)
  • ⇒ Mingrelian: ცირუა (cirua), გოცირუა (gocirua)

Unsorted borrowings

• →? Old Armenian: ցրեմ (cʻrem), ցրուեմ (cʻruem)
• →? Chechen: цац (cac), цаца (caca), цоц (coc), цо̄цо (cooco)
• →? Ingush: цаца (caca)
• →? Bats: ცაც (cac)

Derived terms

• ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *lʿa-car- (“sieve”)
  • Old Georgian: საცერი (saceri) (← *სა-ცარ- (*sa-car-))
    • Georgian: საცერი (saceri)
      • → Mingrelian: საცირი (saciri)
      • → Ossetian: сасир (sasir)
      • → Udi: сацер (sacer)
  • Zan:
    • ⇒ Laz: ონცორუ (onʒoru), ონცორე (onʒore) — Atina, Vizha, ონცირუ (onʒiru), ონციუ (onʒiu), ონციჲუ (onʒiyu) — Khopa, Chkhala

References

• Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 178–179
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*car- : *cr-, *(s)a-cer-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 262, 175
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 575–576
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 554

Further reading

• Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (1985) “Umlauṭis ḳvali kartulši [Traces of umlaut in Georgian]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 120, number 1, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 197―200