Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/nat-

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

*nat- ~ *nt-

1. to shine, give light

Descendants

• Old Georgian: ნათება (nateba), ნათობა (natoba)
  • Georgian: ნათება (nateba), ანთია (antia), ანთება (anteba), მნათობი (mnatobi), სანთელი (santeli), ანთებული (antebuli)
• ⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *nat-e- (“light”)
  • Laz: ნოთე (note)
  • Mingrelian: ნოთე (note)
  • Old Georgian: ნათელი (nateli)
    • Georgian: ნათელი (nateli)
• →? Old Armenian: անթեղ (antʻeł)
• →? Ancient Greek: ἄνθραξ (ánthrax)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “անթեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 194a
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 136-137
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 313-314
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 353