Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/grʒel-

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

Proto-Kartvelian *grʒ- +‎ *-el

Adjective

*grʒ-el-

1. long, high

Descendants

• Old Georgian: გრძელი (grʒeli)
  • Georgian: გრძელი (grʒeli)
  • ⇒ Old Georgian: სიგრძჱ (sigrʒē, “length”), სიგრძოჲ (sigrʒoy)
    • Georgian: სიგრძე (sigrʒe)
• Zan:
  • Laz: გუნძე (gunże), გუნზე (gunze) — Vizha, Artasheni, გინძე (ginże) — Khopa–Batumi, Chkhala, გინზე (ginze) — Azlagha
  • Mingrelian: გინძე (ginʒe), გჷნძე (gənʒe), გირძე (girʒe), გჷძე (gəʒe), გიძე (giʒe)

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 113
• 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, page 232
• Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎^[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 102–103
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*grʒ-, *grʒ-el-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 33
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) “*grʒ-”, in Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 150–151
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) “*grʒ-”, in Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 112–113
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 784