Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/s₁owel-

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

From *s₁ow- (“to be wet”) +‎ Proto-Kartvelian *-el. Note also Proto-Kartvelian *s₁wel- (“whey”).

Adjective

*s₁ow-el-

1. wet

Descendants

• Old Georgian: სუელი (sueli), *სოველი (*soveli)
  • Georgian: სველი (sveli), სოველი (soveli), სობელი (sobeli) — Adjara, Guria, სო̈ველ (sövel), სეველ (sevel), სო̈ვო̈ლ (sövöl) — Ingilo
• Zan:
  • Laz: შუვი (şuvi), შუვერი (şuveri) — Vitse, შუ (şu) — Vitse–Arkabi
  • Mingrelian: შუ (šu)

References

• Č̣araia, Ṗeṭre (1895) “Megruli dialekṭis natesaobrivi damoḳidebuleba kartultan [The genetic relation of the Mingrelian dialect to Georgian]”, in Moambe‎^[1] (in Georgian), number 12, Tbilisi, page 114
• Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 351–352
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 181
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, pages 421–422
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 385

Further reading

• Gamq̇reliʒe, Tamaz (1959) Giorgi C̣ereteli, editor, Sibilanṭta šesaṭq̇visobani da kartvelur enata uʒvelesi sṭrukṭuris zogi saḳitxi [Sibilant correspondences and some problems of the oldest structure of the Kartvelian languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis gamomcemloba, page 17–18 of 1–86