Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/qund-

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

Noun

*qund-

1. stocks, fetters, trap

Descendants

• Old Georgian: ჴუნდი (qundi)
  • Georgian: ხუნდი (xundi)
    • → Armenian: խունդի (xundi)
    • → Mingrelian: ხუნდი (xundi)
• Zan:
  • ⇒ Laz: ოხუნჯუ (oxuncu, “to capture hawks”)
  • Mingrelian: ხუნჯი (xunǯi)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 342
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 722
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 710
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 893

Further reading

• Шмидт, К. Х. (1989) “Относительная хронология и картвельские языки”, in Вопросы языкознания (in Russian), number 4, Москва: Наука, page 84 of 73―87