Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/mʒ₁ewal-

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

By surface analysis, *m- -al +‎ **ʒ₁ew-.

Root

*m-ʒ₁ew-al-

1. nest egg (egg placed in a bird's nest)

Descendants

• Old Georgian: მძევალი (mʒevali)
  • Georgian: მძევალი (mʒevali), რძევალი (rʒevali) — Imereti, Guria, ძევალი (ʒevali) — Imereti, Chveneburi, მზეველი̆ (mzevelĭ) — Tusheti
    • → Svan: ძეუ̂ა̈ლ (ʒeûäl), ძა̈უ̂ა̈ლ (ʒäûäl), ძეუ̂ალ (ʒeûal)
    • → Mingrelian: რძიალი (rʒiali)
• Zan:
  • Mingrelian: ჯალი (ǯali), ჯაალი (ǯaali), რჯალი (rǯali), ჯაი (ǯai) — Martvili–Bandza
    • → Svan: ჯალ (ǯal), ჯა̈ლ (ǯäl), ჯჷლ (ǯəl)

References

• Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “ჯალი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)‎^[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 411
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 130
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 342
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 302