Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/mč̣ad-

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

A cultural term. Compare Proto-Northeast Caucasian *č_wăṭi, Armenian ճաթ (čatʻ).

Noun

*mč̣ad-

1. bread (of millet); mč̣adi

Descendants

• Georgian: მჭადი (mč̣adi)
• Zan: *mč̣ḳud-
  • Laz: მჭკუდი (mç̌ǩudi), მჭკიდი (mç̌ǩidi) — Khopa, Chkhala, ჭკიდი (ç̌ǩidi) — Batumi, მჭუდი (mç̌udi), მჭკიდი (mç̌ǩidi)
  • Mingrelian: ჭკიდი (č̣ḳidi), ჭკჷდი (č̣ḳədi)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 132–133
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 345
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 305
• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “č_wăṭi”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Further reading

• Gudava, Ṭogo (1960) “O-s u-ši gadasvlis zogierti šemtxveva zanur (megrul-č̣anur) enaši [Some cases of transition of o into u in Zan (Mingrelian-Chan) language]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume 25, number 1, Tbilisi, page 119―122