Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/par-

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

Alternative reconstructions

*pr-en- : *pr-in- (Klimov)

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, compare Proto-Kartvelian *ṗer-.

Root

*par- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

to fly

Descendants

⇒ Old Georgian: ფრენა (prena, “flight”), ფრთე (prte, “wing”), მფრინველი (mprinveli, “bird”)
Zan:
- ⇒? Laz: ფურ-თ-ინ- (pur-t-in-)
- ⇒ Mingrelian: ფურინუა (purinua, “flight”)

Derived terms

⇒ Proto-Georgian-Zan: *pr-ial-
- Georgian: ფრ-იალ-ი (pr-ial-i)
  - → Mingrelian: ფრიალი (priali)
- Zan:
  - Mingrelian: ფ-იორ-ი (p-ior-i)

References

Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 456–457
Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 425
Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 203, quotes Laz ფურ-თ-ინ- (pur-t-in-), probably meaning ოფუთხინუ (oputxinu), ოფუთხუ (oputxu)